Andy Hicks
Director Scala Developer at Tanis Systems
Tandridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Hicks is a Director-level Scala developer and freelance contractor with 14 years of professional experience building resilient, Scala-based backends and microservices for organisations including HMRC, ITV and The National Archives. He runs Tanis Systems and has organised the London Scala User Group and major Scala conferences for years, reflecting deep community leadership and commitment to the ecosystem. His hands-on work spans transaction monitoring and fraud detection, content delivery microservices, and tooling such as CSV schema validation, often using Akka, RabbitMQ and functional Scala patterns. Contributions to public projects include practical improvements to HMRC's email renderer, adding multilingual templates and build refinements, showing attention to both UX-facing content and engineering hygiene. Based in Tandridge, UK, he blends long-term systems experience (dating back to early Java and enterprise roles) with ongoing active contracting across public and private sectors.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Westminster
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Github Skills (8)
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scala10
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Github contributions (5)
hmrc/hmrc-email-renderer
Mar 2018 - Feb 2023
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 18 commits, 29 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the codebase by modifying various email templates within the `hmrc-email-renderer` repository. Their work included updates to existing templates related to tax, password changes, and various payment services, as well as creating new templates for Welsh language support. The commits reveal a focus on modifying the presentation of email content, and incorporating new features. Additionally, the user made changes to the build configuration and dependencies.
hmrc/address-lookup-demo
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 97 PRs, 55 pushes in 1 month
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