Scott Mallinson
Senior Software Development Engineer at Travelport, based in Barcelona, with a recent focus on AI features and the guardrails around them.
Most of my time goes on building features end to end, from the interface through the APIs to the services underneath, and the reliability work that keeps it all standing up. Lately that has meant building AI features, which have a habit of surfacing old assumptions about how services ought to be designed.
I've been doing this for about 15 years. This site is where I write some of it down: API design, type systems, AI as a first-class API consumer, and the maintenance work that keeps a codebase navigable. I try to keep it concrete about what the decision was and what it cost, rather than tidying it up afterwards.
Away from the keyboard I run a fairly involved home lab, watch more TV and films than I'll own up to, listen to a lot of music, run when Barcelona's weather allows, and travel whenever there's a decent excuse. I live in Barcelona with my wife Tess and our son.
Get in touch
Email me at [email protected] if you're hiring for a senior or staff engineering role, if you're a founder building AI features and want a second pair of eyes on the guardrails and contracts, or if you'd just like to compare notes.
Building AI features and their guardrails at Travelport, and writing up what they break along the way.