James Hiew
Software Engineer at Thought Machine
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Hiew is a software engineer based in London with a focused track record across fintech, crypto and web development since 2016, blending full-time, contract and consulting roles. He has strong backend and systems architecture experience—demonstrated by contributions to the Rust-based Namada proof-of-stake L1 project where he worked on core functionality, storage improvements and Ethereum bridge event handling. His recent roles include Golang engineering at Monzo and multiple stints at Thought Machine, showing an ability to operate in high-bar financial engineering environments. James combines practical production delivery with open-source collaboration via Chainfork Consulting, and his background in site reliability and blockchain gives him a pragmatic, infrastructure-first approach to building resilient systems. An oft-overlooked strength is his adaptability across languages and architectures, having shipped work spanning Rust, Go and backend CLI tooling.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Higher Education, Computer Science, Diploma of Higher Education, Computer Science at University of Durham, St John's CollegeGCE Advanced Levels, Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics, GCE Advanced Levels, Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics at St Michael's Catholic Grammar School, FinchleyGCSEs, GCSEs at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet
German, English, French
Github Skills (8)
storage10
rust10
blockchain10
ethereum9
system8
architecture8
architectures8
testing7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
namada-net/namada
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Rust implementation of Namada, a Proof-of-Stake L1 for interchain asset-agnostic privacy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:521 reviews, 711 commits, 202 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the core functionality and infrastructure of the Namada project. They addressed critical issues, such as handling events related to Ethereum bridge transactions and ensuring the project works with different architectures. Furthermore, the user worked on improving various internal components, like the storage, and added new functionality with the aid of external tools. They also made changes to the CLI interface.
interchainrustblockchainprivacyzkp
anoma/devtool
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 5 PRs, 38 pushes in 6 months
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