Jamie Hewland
Software Engineer at Apple
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJamie Hewland is a Software Engineer with 13 years’ experience building and operating cloud-native data and web services from London. He specialises in container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes), data streaming (Kafka, Flink, Kinesis) and Python web backends (Django, Flask, ASGI), and has led teams as a technical lead responsible for Kafka infrastructure at Yelp and now contributes at Apple. Jamie pairs hands-on systems work—writing operators, client libraries, and custom log-routing agents handling millions of messages per second—with strong DevOps instincts, improving CI/CD, Docker image build flows and graceful shutdown semantics in high-profile projects like Envoy and the official Python Docker images. He’s an active open-source contributor across languages (notably Rust and Python), adding low-level system bindings and TLS/async improvements to widely used libraries such as nix, libc, httpx and Starlette. Beyond code, he’s driven operational improvements (monitoring, dashboards, rate-limiting, and cost optimisations) and has spoken at conferences while mentoring engineers, showing a mix of technical depth and pragmatic leadership. An understated strength is his knack for turning operational pain points into reusable tooling and platform-level solutions that scale.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Honours, Computer Science, Honours, Computer Science at University of Cape Town
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Github Skills (67)
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
docker-library/python
Jul 2016 - Jan 2019
Docker Official Image packaging for Python
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:21 commits, 15 PRs, 43 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jamie primarily contributed to the Docker Official Image packaging for Python repository by modifying the `update.sh` script to support various Alpine Linux versions (3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9). They added and modified build configurations, addressing dependencies and integrating patches for Python modules within the Alpine environment. Furthermore, the user adjusted settings for OpenSSL and LibreSSL, as well as installing ca-certificates and incorporating the build process for the nis module based on specific Alpine versions.
pythondocker-imagepackagingdockerpython3
encode/starlette
Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
The little ASGI framework that shines. 🌟
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 109 reviews, 22 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jamie primarily contributed to the Starlette framework by implementing new features and enhancing existing functionalities. Their work included adding a UUID converter for routing, integrating import sorting and code formatting tools like isort and black, and updating CI scripts. They also addressed issues related to testing and code quality, as well as deprecating built-in GraphQL support.
asgipythonwebsocketsframeworkasync
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