Illuminate
InfinianDesigned and built a cost-of-living affordability product from the ground up, including versioned per-client configuration that each lender can activate and roll back.
TypeScript · AWS Lambda · S3 · CDK · MongoDB Atlas
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Rob Norris
Senior software engineer
Working in fintech, focused on backend services and cloud infrastructure. Right now: credit and identity data APIs for UK lenders on serverless AWS; before that, an event-driven pricing system on Azure serving 2,400 retail stores.
robmatthewn@gmail.comSelected work
Signal
InfinianBuilt a contact-information search API that returns a matched person's latest contact details, along with their address and phone history.
TypeScript · AWS Lambda · MongoDB Atlas
Spark
InfinianTook ownership of the credit-application lookup API and re-architected it, fixing its database layer and adding audit-log retention.
TypeScript · AWS Lambda · MongoDB Atlas
Event-Driven Shelf-Edge Pricing
Co-opBuilt the event-driven pricing system behind Co-op's electronic shelf-edge label rollout, delivering live dynamic price and promotion updates to physical labels across 2,400 stores.
TypeScript · Azure Functions · Durable Functions · Service Bus · GraphQL
Modernising Time Management
Co-opLed the redesign and modernisation of a large-scale time management system serving 2,400 retail locations, integrating third-party APIs while keeping every location operational.
Node.js · TypeScript · API Integration
Enterprise AI Chatbot
Co-opLed development of an enterprise AI chatbot built on OpenAI's LLM technology, improving internal knowledge sharing and access to company resources.
OpenAI LLMs
About
Most of my recent work has involved financial data. At Infinian I'm part of a small team delivering credit and identity data APIs to UK lenders on serverless AWS; before that, at Co-op, I built event-driven systems on Azure for 2,400 stores.
I started as an apprentice in 2017, studying for a BSc (Hons) at Manchester Metropolitan University alongside the job, and I've mentored apprentices since. I'm happy working in React and Next.js when a project needs it, but my focus is backend services and the infrastructure under them.
Experience
- Feb 2026 – Present
Senior Software Engineer
Infinian (Quint Group), Manchester
Credit and identity data APIs for UK lenders on serverless AWS: Illuminate, Signal and Spark, plus shared platform work (OAuth scopes, a TypeScript SDK and the OpenAPI spec).
- Sep 2024 – Feb 2026
Software Engineer
Co-op (Operational Innovation), Manchester
Shelf-edge pricing, an enterprise AI chatbot and time management modernisation on Azure.
- Sep 2022 – Sep 2024
Software Engineer
Cheshire Data Systems, Stockport
Moved from backend to full-stack, learning React and Next.js and helping build a comprehensive UI-Kit.
- Sep 2021 – Sep 2022
Junior Server Applications Developer
Cheshire Data Systems, Stockport
Led feature work, redesigned archaic applications as a serverless solution, and mentored apprentices.
- Sep 2017 – Sep 2021
Apprentice Software Developer
Cheshire Data Systems, Stockport
Built features for insurer products, ran peer code reviews and worked closely with QA, alongside a BSc (Hons) at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Skills
Backend
- TypeScript / JavaScript
- Node.js
- Java (Spring MVC, REST, Integration)
- C#
Cloud & infrastructure
- AWS (Lambda, CDK, Cognito, S3)
- Azure (Functions, Durable Functions, Service Bus)
- Terraform
- Docker
Data
- MongoDB Atlas
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Oracle SQL
Frontend
- React
- Next.js (App and Pages Router)
- HTML / CSS
Certifications
Practice & tooling
- OAuth2
- OpenAPI
- Jest
- TDD / BDD
- CI/CD
- GraphQL
- Agile (Kanban & Scrum)
- Mentoring