Dominic Hickie
Lead Engineer at Just Eat Takeaway.com
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDominic Hickie is a Lead Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building high-availability, high-performance systems across payments, banking, and enterprise data domains. He has progressed from algorithmic work at Thales to leading core platform and API teams at Pockit and now drives engineering at Just Eat Takeaway.com, blending pragmatic architecture with prototype-driven evaluation of new technologies. Dominic focuses on sustainable, scalable software—designing message-based orchestration, high-throughput logging, and unified customer data APIs to improve reliability and operability. He pairs deep technical breadth as a polyglot with clear cross-team communication, including engineering newsletters to share strategy and best practice. With a first-class Master’s in Physics, he brings analytic rigor and a systems mindset to complex distributed problems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Physics with Particle Physics and Cosmology, 1st, Master’s Degree, Physics with Particle Physics and Cosmology, 1st at Lancaster University
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Github Skills (34)
vertical-slice-architecture10
nuget10
ocelot10
messaging10
brighter10
kafka10
rabbitmq10
dapr10
chat10
scale10
mediatr10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
dotnet9
message-queue9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dhickie/Brighter
May 2024 - Apr 2025
A framework for building messaging apps with .NET and C#.
Contributions:73 pushes, 38 branches in 10 months
dhickie/go-lgtv
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Package for discovering and manipulating LG smart TVs
Contributions:4 releases, 22 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
lgdiscoveringbaduklg-smart-tvstvs
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