01 Current signal

London / Product + systems + execution

Oktarian Tilney-Bassett

Software engineer working at the intersection of product strategy and distributed systems.

02 Selected history

Professional experience

Recent roles, compressed into the essentials.

2022 - 2023

Software Development Intern

Amazon · London, UK

Built a centralized configuration platform for a critical catalog pipeline component to reduce incident risk caused by configuration errors and miscommunication.

  • Java
  • AWS
  • React
  • TypeScript
2022

Software Engineer Intern

Improbable · London, UK

Led the migration to region-based game server allocations, improving operations and enabling zero-downtime cluster moves without customer intervention.

  • Go
  • Kubernetes
  • gRPC
  • Observability
2021

Software Engineer Intern

Gearset · Cambridge, UK

Built customer-facing workflow tooling and internal monitoring surfaces for the Deployment Pipelines team.

2020 - 2021

Software Engineer Intern

University Path Advisor · Remote

Redesigned the mobile experience and shipped new pathfinding and localization improvements to production.

03 Field notes

Interests

The areas I keep circling back to.

01 / systems

Distributed systems at real operating scale

02 / product

Platform design that makes complex systems easy to use

03 / AI

Moving faster with AI, without breaking things

04 / scale

Systems that stay understandable as they scale

05 / reliability

Operational reliability that teams can own and manage well

06 / leadership

Strong technical discussion where the best idea wins