Giles Hinchcliff
Director Of Platform Engineering
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGiles Hinchcliff is a seasoned platform and DevSecOps leader with a decade of hands-on experience building secure, scalable cloud platforms and developer experiences across enterprises and startups. As co-founder of Rebel Astronaut and in senior SRE/engineering leadership roles at Featurespace and Visa, he has repeatedly cut time-to-market (notably a 67% reduction at LSEG) by designing developer platforms, automation, and operating models that scale to thousands of engineers. His background spans infrastructure-as-code, AWS, Kubernetes and security-first transformations for regulated organisations including the UK Home Office, Pearson and Visa. Giles combines strategic program leadership—running teams of ~50 and influencing C-suite and regulators—with deep technical delivery, from multi-account AWS governance to automated detection/remediation that reduced risk by up to 80%. He’s known for turning fragmented teams into high-velocity, product-focused organisations and for elevating developer engagement into formal organisational standards.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Time Based Media, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Time Based Media at London Metropolitan University, Whitechapel, London.
Github Skills (91)
tencent-cloud10
lambda10
filter10
yaml9
azure9
management9
cloud-computing9
gcp9
npm-package9
optimization9
serverless9
governance9
aws9
compliance9
dsl9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rebelastronaut/rebel-astronaut
Aug 2023 - Jan 2024
launch page for rebelastronaut
Contributions:34 PRs, 174 pushes, 11 branches in 5 months
UKHomeOffice/docker-clamav
May 2016 - Jan 2017
ClamAV built on alpine
Contributions:32 commits, 20 PRs, 41 pushes in 8 months
alpinedockerclamav
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