Roland Ormrod

Staff Engineer @Kennek

London, GB

Software EngineerTech: Kotlin, React, PostgreSQL, GCPPractices: Continuous Delivery, Mono-environment Development, TDDWorked in a disciplined merge straight to production environment, achieving ~10-minute lead time, 6–12 deployments per day, and <0.5% change failure rate across ~2,200 production commits. Maintained strong operational reliability with typical incident recovery under 20 minutes.Achievements- Designed and built a hypermedia-driven frontend framework and component library, reducing development time for new features by ~80–90%- Initiated and contributed to the development of a diffing tool for the calculation engine, giving engineers greater confidence when making changes- Strengthened the team’s testing culture by fixing and improving the local development environment in my first week which is now a cornerstone of our engineering workflow.Responsibilities- Collaborated directly with end users to translate requirements into scalable, cross-use-case solutions- Enhanced and extended the loan calculation engine to support new financial products- Developed and maintained workflows in the loan management system, enabling restructures, accurate redemption calculations, and drawdowns- Founded and led a fortnightly engineering alignment meeting focused on technical direction and best practices.