Jake Barnes
Product Development Engineer at Pirelli
Redditch, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Barnes is a Product Development Engineer at Pirelli and an Automotive Engineering student at Loughborough University with eight years of practical experience spanning R&D support and customer-facing retail roles. He blends hands-on vehicle and tyre product development with software fluency—contributing backend improvements in Scala to financial email rendering for a prominent HMRC repository. Passionate about motorsport and Formula 1, Jake is building a career aimed at applying engineering rigor from university projects and Pirelli labs to high-performance vehicle systems. His background shows a pragmatic mix of lab research, template-driven backend work, and seasonal frontline roles that sharpen communication and commercial awareness. Comfortable moving between technical documentation, data presentation, and physical product testing, he brings both attention to detail and a drive to translate complex engineering into race-ready solutions.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Automotive Engineering Technology/Technician, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Automotive Engineering Technology/Technician at Loughborough UniversityAlcester Grammar School Sixth Form
Github Skills (4)
email-templates10
scala10
html9
testing4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hmrc/hmrc-email-renderer
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 15 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributed to the online payment service email templates within the hmrc-email-renderer repository. Their work involved modifying existing templates and adding new ones, specifically for surcharge and finance reports related to online and telephone payment services. The user updated existing code to display financial data, including the formatting of amounts, and introduced new features such as child benefit repayment reporting. The majority of the changes focused on the presentation and content of financial reports.
hmrc/essttp-dates
May 2022 - Apr 2023
Contributions:16 reviews, 22 PRs, 24 pushes in 10 months
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