Harry Fitzgerald
Software Engineering Manager @GFS (Global Freight Solutions Ltd)
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WORK HISTORY
Software Engineering Manager @GFS (Global Freight Solutions Ltd)
Southampton, GB
Operated as a hybrid Engineering Manager/Tech Lead (“coding EM”), driving architectural direction while coaching engineers across varying experience levels.Led the introduction of a shared platform engineering initiative, delivering reusable CI/CD workflows and infrastructure patterns adopted across multiple engineering teams.Designed and led the architecture of a multi-tenant, event-driven integration platform (“Fuse”), spanning SFTP, Shopify, and WMS systems (SnapFulfil), built on Google Cloud Run and Pub/Sub with canonical data models and extensible transformation logic.Built scalable configuration and event propagation systems, enabling real-time updates to connector mappings and backend behaviour across distributed services.Introduced standardised observability patterns (Datadog) and infrastructure-as-code practices, enabling consistent, cross-organisation visibility (ILG + GFS).Replaced a fragmented, multi-repository deployment process (ADO integrations, Flux/K8s/Terraform updates, and centralised Terraform execution) with a self-serve, pipeline-driven model, reducing deployment lead time from days to minutes (~3–10 minutes) and eliminating a key organisational bottleneck.Established engineering standards around validation, typing, and error handling, reducing cognitive load and eliminating classes of runtime errors across services.Raised engineering maturity through cross-team technical alignment, architecture guidance, and brown-bag sessions, enabling teams to adopt scalable patterns and ship more effectively.Mentored engineers on both IC and leadership progression, supporting career growth and promotion readiness (including successful progression to Senior), while improving technical quality and communication across the team.Built a lightweight DSL interpreter (concat/upper/lower/if/eq/etc.) for customer-specific transformation rules, enabling non-breaking extensibility within multi-tenant mapping logic.
EDUCATION
University of Portsmouth
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science
ABOUT HARRY FITZGERALD
Enthusiastic and pragmatic, I make hard tasks easy and easy tasks automated-delivering high-quality solutions with speed and clarity. I lead with code and culture, building distributed cloud systems that scale, while helping engineering teams grow and deliver at their best.As a Technical Lead, I bring deep experience across regulated industries-from healthcare to pharma to global e-commerce-driving forward everything from microservices architecture and platform engineering to CI/CD, observability, and developer experience. I care about doing things properly: clean, reliable code, modern DevOps practices, and infrastructure that just works.I believe great engineering is built on trust and clarity. I lead with empathy, creating space for engineers to thrive-whether mentoring early-career developers, guiding teams through change, or shaping a culture of continuous improvement. I thrive at the intersection of software and systems, and take pride in helping teams deliver robust, elegant solutions to hard problems.
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