Joel Staugaitis

Software Engineer

United Kingdom & EU

About

A systems-oriented engineer fuelled by novelty in deep dives into frameworks, methodologies and languages. Takes pride in reducing complexity to bring others onboard across the stack. Experienced in engineering for a 45+ million user platform, providing tech leadership, security automation, DevOps and software in mission-critical environments.

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Experience

Consultant Software Engineer — Level 2CGI

Jul 2025 — Present

Promoted: Level 1 → Level 2 · Sep 2026

Role: Delivering to a public sector data platform using aws, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, Python, Java, Terraform and Vault.
Service Management: Ships features, fixes and updates for systems in response to client reports and needs. Also provides onboarding support.
P2 Recovery: Took initiative in recovering a critical service, while analysing, sharing architecture and debugging thought process, yielding a graceful recovery without data loss.
Security: Patched dozens of vulnerabilities and implemented security opinions for prevention at library/module levels.
Redesigned Onboarding Methodology: Implemented a self-service path that quadrupled adoption over 2 months.
Mentoring and Knowledge Sharing: Frequently deep-dives, documents, simplifies and presents.
Platform Consultation: Delivers analysis to steer platform engineering opinions, plans and decisions.

Volunteer Software EngineerHe Is Real Charity

May 2025 — July 2025

Role: Architected and deployed a POC for a testimony site, allowing public upload, view of stories and admin moderation.
AI Accelerated Full Stack Delivery: Developed backend, frontend, web components and workflows efficiently.
DevOps: Set up CI/CD, deployments, object storage and user management using GCP and AWS.
Client Communication: Guided the project owner through engineering choices, trade-offs and costs, resulting in on-time delivery and a project now growing with 20+ testimonies.

Software DeveloperHM Revenue & Customs

Oct 2023 — Aug 2024

Poster

Role: Developed on team Platform Operations on the Multi-Channel Digital Tax Platform (MDTP), responsible for DevOps, paved road, aws, observability, scalability and CI/CD at HMRC.
R&D: One investigation resulted in a 100+ microservice reduction across all HMRC environments.
Automation: Coded a config explorer tool to improve team’s efficiency.
Micro-service & Frontend Development: Using Scala and MongoDB, worked on optimisations, improved fall-back mechanisms for microservices and evolved frontend for a self-service Catalogue tool.
DevOps: Managed aws infrastructure and enforcement of Platform opinions.

Projects

ZeroCam

Repo

Embedded dashcam system in Rust with Tauri and React for Raspberry Pi, with cloud features such as streaming and cloud backup. Contributed to the Tauri open-source community in the process.