Hamish Hossack
Senior Software Engineer at Simple Machines
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHamish Hossack is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 10 years of experience delivering scalable web applications and leading product-driven teams. He has built and shipped full-stack systems across startups and enterprises—from founding a bespoke engineering studio to shaping member-facing platforms at Soho House and high-volume marketing systems handling billions of emails. Comfortable across Node.js, Vue/React, Kubernetes and microservices, he blends hands-on engineering with pragmatic architecture choices that integrate legacy systems. A contributor to open-source testing tooling, Hamish has improved robustness in low-level network interception tests, showing attention to quality beyond feature delivery. He pairs technical leadership with a background in R&D and product prototyping, consistently turning concepts into reliable, production-ready software.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Btec. National Diploma, Computer Science, Btec. National Diploma, Computer Science at Guildford CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc), Computing, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing at Bournemouth University
Github Skills (7)
http10
nodejs10
fetch10
testing10
mocker9
mocks9
javascript7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mswjs/interceptors
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Low-level network interception library.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Hamish's commits primarily focused on enhancing the testing suite for the `mswjs/interceptors` repository. They removed duplicate tests and refined existing ones, specifically addressing how the code handles port 443 and secure protocols. This involved modifying test assertions related to URLs and protocols, ensuring accuracy and reliability within the network interception library. The changes indicate a focus on improving the test coverage and robustness of the project.
interceptstubbinghttp-clientjavascriptfetch-request
hamishhossack/dulwich-psycotherapy
Sep 2017 - Apr 2022
Dulwich Psycotherapy
Contributions:20 PRs, 185 pushes, 16 branches in 4 years 7 months
pythondulwich
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