Hugh Purnell
Software Engineer
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolHugh Purnell is a software engineer with 13 years’ experience building backend infrastructure and automation for underwriting, finance, and high-availability data systems. Trained as an electrical and computer engineer with postgraduate study in data science, he blends computational rigour with practical cloud-native development across Azure and AWS. At Blue Zebra he progressed from engineer to lead, owning serverless, app services, and MS SQL-based platforms that underpin underwriting operations. He’s also tackled low-latency data ingestion for crypto arbitrage and medical-device product engineering, showing a knack for stability under real-time constraints. Based in Sydney, Hugh combines systems architecture, automation, and domain-focused problem solving to turn complex operational needs into reliable software.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyGithub contributions (4)
AshwinRamesh/AI_Assignment_1
Apr 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:28 commits, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
hPurnell/clean_architecture_litestar_faststream
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 6 days
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