Hugo Heyman
Programmer System Architect at 5 Monkeys
Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolHugo Heyman is a Programmer and System Architect with 14 years of experience designing and delivering reliable, automated systems from database schemas to advanced UIs. Based in Uppsala, Sweden, he blends hands-on development with architecture work at 5 Monkeys while also consulting on payment integrations, bespoke web scraping, automated load testing and analytics. He contributed to the popular open-source Locust project, adding dynamic client spawn/ramp and percentile-based scaling—skills that reflect a pragmatic focus on performance and resilience. Hugo favours automation to reduce toil and has a track record of turning complex, data-heavy requirements into robust, maintainable solutions. He is comfortable across the stack and often combines backend performance engineering with product-minded system design.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Uppsala University
Github Skills (14)
loadtest10
performance-tuning10
performance-analytics10
performance-monitor10
performance-analysis10
performance-monitoring10
locust10
load-testing10
python10
performance-measurement10
performance-testing10
benchmarking9
benchmark9
load-generator9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
locustio/locust
May 2015 - Nov 2020
Write scalable load tests in plain Python 🚗💨
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:2 branches, 12 comments in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Hugo focused on implementing and refining features related to dynamically spawning and killing load testing clients within the Locust framework. They refactored core components and added functionality for dynamically adjusting the number of locusts. The user also added the ability to ramp up and down the number of clients, and incorporated a percentile-based approach to determine scaling thresholds. The work primarily involved changes to core Python modules within the Locust project.
scalablestress-testingbenchmarkingpythonload-testing
HeyHugo/browser-notification
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 25 commits, 8 pushes in 3 months
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