Hugo Sykes
Software Engineering Manager at Go City®
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHugo Sykes is a software engineering manager based in London with 9 years of professional experience and a strong 4-year focus in data engineering. He blends hands-on expertise in Python, Bash, Terraform, Spark, Airflow and AWS EMR with leadership of cross-functional teams at Go City®, progressing from senior data engineer to manager. His background spans full-stack and backend technologies (Java, Ruby, NodeJS, React, Spring Boot) and infrastructure tooling (Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation), enabling him to bridge data pipelines and production platforms. Hugo favors pragmatic, infrastructure-as-code approaches to reproducible data workflows and has practical experience operating EMR and Airflow at scale. Trained in Mathematics and Physics at Warwick and a graduate of Makers Academy, he brings analytical rigor and a developer-first coaching style to delivery and process improvements. Outside the codebase he draws on earlier hospitality management experience to keep teams customer-focused and operationally resilient.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Junior Developer, Full Stack Junior Developer at Makers AcademyBryanston SchoolBachelor's degree, Mathematics and Physics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Physics at University of Warwick
Github Skills (16)
explore9
twitter8
hippo-cms8
twilio8
fmi8
react7
css7
nodejs7
cms7
javascript6
cli5
utterances1
django1
python1
hosting1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hugosykes/CV
Sep 2017 - Nov 2024
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
cdunham1989/makers-bnb
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:10 PRs, 26 pushes, 17 branches in 4 days
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