Hugo Sharman-firth
Founding Engineer at cookbook.directory
London, England, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolHugo Sharman-firth is a founding engineer and hands-on leader with 12 years of experience building full-stack web products and autonomous engineering teams. He combines pragmatic, product-first thinking with deep technical craft—particularly in functional languages like Clojure and Elixir, and modern client-side stacks with TypeScript and React. A proven delivery lead across London-stage companies (Kaluza, loveholidays, Signal Media, GoCardless) he champions XP practices such as pair programming and trunk-based development to raise quality and ownership. Recently he architected and launched cookbook.directory while relocating to Brisbane, and is exploring SSR/SEO, document recognition, and RAG on Vertex AI—demonstrating an appetite for applied ML and cutting-edge tooling. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who balances architectural judgment with the discipline of shipping valuable customer outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Software Engineering at The University of Queensland
Stackoverflow
710reputation
47kreached
17answers
12questions
Github Skills (92)
babashka9
airtable9
graph9
whiteboard9
leiningen8
gocardless8
build-automation8
terraform8
aws8
terraform-module7
infrastructure7
hashicorp7
infrastructure-as-code7
docker7
hcl7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bmabey/clj-airbrake
Mar 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 10 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 9 months
apiclojureairbrake
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