Lead Backend Engineer at Cox Automotive
2025. Serverless remittance. EventBridge, Lambda, Open Banking, SEPA. Introduced Claude AI agents with MCP tools across microservices.
Who is Darlington?
Michael Darlington is a London-based backend engineer turned agent architect, with experience across automotive payments, fintech, cloud platforms, education and regulated software.
Senior Backend Engineer at Finova
2022. .NET 9, GraphQL, CosmosDB. Led 8 developers across four contract-driven microservices. Reduced production incidents 85%.
Cloud Platform Engineer at BNY Mellon
2021. Cross-cloud Kubernetes on Azure & AWS. Python LLM chatbot. Go observability tooling. Terraform IaC — onboarding from 2 weeks to 2 days.
Cloud Software Engineer at Cloud Design Box
2020. GPT-3 tutor chatbot serving 1M+ students. Real-time collaborative whiteboard. <100ms sync nationwide.
Full-Stack Developer at LabLogic Systems
2018. ISO 9001-compliant nuclear medicine backend. C#, SQL Server. Systems can be life-critical.
BSc Computer Science (First Class) at Hull University
2015. Machine vision weather prediction. Natural language to C compiler.
