Writing from Liam Bennett — Senior Software Architect. Hard problems, AI, and the odd tangent.
Over the years we’ve been told a lot of things about naming. Use Hungarian notation. Keep names short and abbreviated. And if in doubt, just call it a Manager, a Controller or a Helper. Or we’ve gone off-piste entirely and picked fun codenames, something the team can rally around like it’s a pet they’ve adopted. Maybe I’m just boring, but when it comes to systems, I…
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. I’m a Senior Software Architect with over 20 years in the industry, currently working at a large-scale betting and gaming company. The systems have to work under load and under pressure, so most of my time goes into scalable architecture and technical strategy. Outside of work I’m a husband and dad to two kids (with a third on the way). I…