Summary
Hamish Pitkeathly is a software engineer with eight years' experience building developer-facing tools and developer experience platforms, currently at Thought Machine where he works with Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, gRPC and SQL. He has a practical background bridging engineering and talent acquisition from roles at Google and in recruitment, where he combined technical hiring with building internal tooling (notably using the GitHub API to map open-source networks). Comfortable across backend systems and data-oriented tooling, he has shipped Python and Flask applications, analytics workflows with Pandas, and lightweight web services on Google App Engine. A Mechanical Engineering graduate from the University of Bath, he brings structured problem-solving and a recruiter’s eye for developer ecosystems to product-focused engineering. He is based in England and maintains a public presence on GitHub and HackerRank, reflecting an interest in open-source and technical skills benchmarking.
8 years of coding experience
High School, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, A, A, A, High School, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, A, A, A at Sutton Coldfield College
Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of Bath