Ben Hughes
Principal Engineer at Thought Machine
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Hughes is a Principal Engineer and seasoned technology leader with 12 years of experience scaling engineering organisations and shipping product-focused software. Based in London, they helped grow Thought Machine from a 10-person startup to a 400+ person, multi-continent company, hiring 100+ engineers in a single year and designing team topologies that enabled rapid, autonomous delivery. Hands-on from frontend to platform, Ben has built high-performance JavaScript experiences at Microsoft used by millions and led cross-functional teams that balance platform robustness with product outcomes. They coach and develop managers into leaders, fostering autonomy while ensuring teams have the context to make sound product decisions. As a non-binary/trans leader with a technical pedigree rooted in games computing, Ben brings both empathy and technical rigor to scaling engineering culture and systems. A pragmatic builder, they focus on creating products customers use every day while architecting organisations that sustain fast growth.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Software Development Games Computing, BSc (Hons) Software Development Games Computing at University of Lincoln
Github Skills (89)
declarative10
javascript10
cross-platform10
query-language10
android10
curve10
obsidian10
ios10
react-native10
user-interface10
frontend10
react10
middleware9
reducers9
omnifocus9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
benhughes/node-haste
May 2016 - Dec 2018
A dependency management system for static resources for node.js.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 6 months
management-systemnode-jsdependency-managementnodejsdependency-manager
benhughes/static-api
Jul 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:28 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
to-jsonjson-filematchesfolder-structurejson
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