James Hoskin
Senior Software Engineer at Raytheon Australia
Adelaide, South Australia
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Top SchoolJames Hoskin is a Senior Software Engineer based in Adelaide with 7 years of experience building distributed systems, DevOps pipelines, and user-focused front-end interfaces. He has delivered mission-critical software at Lockheed Martin—designing data-driven Java applications and a Python/Selenium test automation framework for a billion-dollar contract—before joining Raytheon Australia. Comfortable across the stack, James automates CI/CD with Go and GitLab Pipelines, crafts intuitive UIs (notably improving in-cockpit displays on a popular MSFS mods repo), and leads teams as a former Scrum Master. His background spans enterprise SaaS at SAP, data-driven work at the Australian Taxation Office, and practical product thinking informed by UX research and prototyping. He combines a dual IT and Business education with hands-on open-source front-end contributions, bringing a blend of technical depth and user-centric design to complex engineering problems.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Bachelor's degree Business and Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Business and Information Technology at Karlsruhe University of Applied SciencesQueensland Certificate of Education (QCE), Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE) at St Edmund's College Ipswich
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Github contributions (5)
Working-Title-MSFS-Mods/fspackages
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
Working Title FS Packages
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 156 commits, 27 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on front-end development, specifically enhancing the user interface and functionality of the in-cockpit displays. They implemented a checklist menu within the MFD, redesigned the FMS text menu, and integrated the system overlay menu with relevant metrics. The contributions involved significant styling improvements and adjustments to the display elements.
J-Hoskin/CJ4-Extended
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:93 commits, 6 pushes, 1 comment in 1 month
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