Hugh Grigg
Staff Software Engineer at Kensio Software
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHugh Grigg is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of professional experience and two decades of programming practice, specialising in cloud-native architectures, platform engineering and high-throughput application design. He has led architectural decisions and built critical systems—payments, market trading integrations and bespoke testing frameworks—across startups and contract engagements for clients like Bulb Energy and Freetrade. Comfortable across the stack, Hugh combines Python, TypeScript and cloud tooling (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform) to deliver resilient microservices and fast CI flows. He’s experienced at translating business needs into tested, production-grade systems and often designs pragmatic testing and CI strategies to speed delivery. Unusually for a senior engineer, his academic background is in East Asian Studies from Cambridge, reflecting a broader analytical perspective he brings to stakeholder communication and complex problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) East Asian Studies, Bachelor of Arts (BA) East Asian Studies at University of Cambridge
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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322kreached
9answers
19questions
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Github Skills (155)
hugo10
python10
security10
malware10
docker-container10
django10
laravel10
social-media10
hosts10
php10
pinyin9
docker-compose9
jam9
paypal9
mercadopago9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
hughgrigg/php-business-time
Mar 2018 - Jul 2019
Business time logic for PHP
Contributions:11 releases, 150 commits, 92 PRs in 1 year 4 months
phpbusiness-timelogicbusiness-hourscalendar
hughgrigg/chineseboost
Jan 2015 - Jun 2018
Source for article sections of chineseboost.com
Contributions:10 PRs, 104 pushes, 14 branches in 3 years 6 months
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