James Hurst
Software Engineering Manager at Foundation Health
South Kesteven, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Hurst is an experienced Software Engineering Manager with 25+ years in software development and a proven track record of modernising legacy platforms into cloud-native, event-driven architectures. He blends hands-on technical leadership (AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge, TypeScript, Node.js, React, .NET) with people-first management—coaching engineers into senior roles, recruiting strategically, and fostering inclusive teams. James has repeatedly improved delivery predictability using agile practices and DORA metrics while maintaining high standards for quality, security and observability. He has led full lifecycle delivery for consumer-facing platforms, including architecting serverless replacements for Ruby/Rails APIs and shipping an online energy purchase journey without human agents. Notably, he pairs deep platform evolution experience with a history of short-term contracting across media and ecommerce, giving him a pragmatic, delivery-oriented approach to complex migrations. Based in South Kesteven, England, he is currently open to Engineering Manager opportunities.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Higher National Diploma Software Engineering, Higher National Diploma Software Engineering at Farnborough College of Technology
Github Skills (14)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
xlevel/Prometheus-Demo
Oct 2017 - May 2019
A quick start demo of web site/service monitoring using Prometheus.
Contributions:2 releases, 4 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 7 months
monitorweb-sitemonitoring-servicedockergrafana
xlevel/WeatherNode
Dec 2017 - Jun 2020
A simple to configure NodeJS based weather station data node.
Contributions:4 releases, 4 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 6 months
weather-stationnodejsconfigurestation
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