Principal-level engineer focused on decision systems, backend architecture and authority design.

My primary portfolio and entry point: the full catalogue of projects, grouped by category (Decision Architecture, applications, libraries and tooling, protocol and standards, Elite Dangerous, 3D printing and more).

• 28+ years building software across defence, fintech, telecoms and startups
• 13+ years Python (backend, automation, distributed systems)
• I design systems and organisations for:
  • clear decision ownership
  • low coordination latency
  • long-term structural stability
• Writing: CrankTheCode.com
• Open to Staff/Principal engineering, integration/solutions architecture or modernisation-lead.
• Contributions to any of my repositories are under the terms in CONTRIBUTING.md

_{Side note: shubh2294 (Shubham Mishra) is NOT a contributor to any of my repositories. This is a GitHub sidebar caching bug I cannot fix.}