Neil Sherman

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ABOUT NEIL SHERMAN

I\'ve spent twenty-five years building software that people depend on without thinking about — high-availability systems handling millions of transactions, search engines returning results in single-digit milliseconds, platforms running across web, iOS and Android from shared codebases. All of that depth at one organisation, by choice. I chose architectural maturity over job-hopping. The result is a rare combination of hands-on technical leadership and long-term strategic thinking — and skills that transfer directly to any domain where complex data meets demanding users. As a Chief Software Architect, I shape technical direction across multiple product lines: → System design and technical architecture across the full stack → Technology strategy, roadmapping, and architecture governance → High-performance search and data integration at national scale → Cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and cost optimisation. → Security architecture, resilience patterns, and disaster recovery → Legacy modernisation — incrementally, not rewrites → AI and agentic tooling in real engineering workflows → Translating technical risk into the language the boardroom understandsJava · Spring Boot ·.NET Core · Angular · Ionic · Azure · Apache Lucene · Domain-Driven Design · CQRS · Event-Driven Architecture · Microservices · API Design · Docker · CI/CD · WCAG Accessibility I believe the best architects stay close to the code. I still read it, write it, and review it — because architectural decisions made in isolation from implementation reality are the ones that get quietly worked around. I write about software architecture, system design, and engineering practices at neilsherman.co.uk.