Graham Hadgraft
Lead Backend Engineer at eola
Ipswich, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGraham Hadgraft is a lead backend engineer with 12 years of experience building and scaling web platforms, primarily using Ruby on Rails, React and Heroku. He progressed from individual contributor roles to leading teams and hiring engineers while taking products from MVP to serving hundreds of thousands of tickets per month at Sofar Sounds. Based in Ipswich, he combines hands-on infrastructure and full-stack work with product-facing responsibilities—scoping features, running A/B tests and iterating from metrics. At eola he now leads backend efforts, bringing practical experience across startup and music-industry contexts. His background in Internet Technology and early work managing Linux servers and mobile tooling gives him a blend of operational rigor and product sensitivity that helps teams ship reliable systems quickly.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc (Hons) Internet Technology, B.Sc (Hons) Internet Technology at University of PortsmouthStowmarket High School
Github Skills (78)
rest-api10
api10
mongodb10
graphql-api9
sounds9
access-control9
trigger9
haskell9
webhooks9
subgraph9
graphql9
sql-server9
database8
hasura8
postgresql8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sofarsounds/heroku-buildpack-git-sha
Nov 2015 - Apr 2019
Exports the Heroku SOURCE_VERSION variable (usually the Git SHA) to an env variable that application code can access.
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes in 3 years 5 months
herokuexportsshabuildpackenv
bitscraps/bob-morton
Jul 2016 - May 2020
Service to check and report rubocop violation count
Contributions:16 PRs, 93 pushes, 20 branches in 3 years 11 months
reportrubocoprubyviolation
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