Jamie Hurst
Principal Software Engineer at Booking.com
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJamie Hurst is a Principal Software Engineer with 14–15 years of experience building and operating cloud-native, data-driven systems across Java, Python, Go, JavaScript and PHP. He specialises in migrating legacy platforms to containerised, scalable architectures—designing the roadmap, winning business alignment, then technically leading teams to deliver and own production systems on AWS and Kubernetes. Jamie has a strong track record launching and growing engineering hubs and practices (notably founding Tesco Bank’s Newcastle tech hub and hiring rapidly during COVID), and driving organisational change around CI/CD, Terraform and operational resilience. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and people leader, he combines hands-on development with mentoring and recruitment to help teams deliver reliably under pressure. A pragmatic builder, he pairs product-facing feature delivery with deep operational experience, having led incident response, platform integrations and large-scale migrations in regulated environments.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computing, BSc (Hons) Computing at University of Sunderland
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Github Skills (57)
markdown10
obsidian10
plugin9
unit-testing9
sqlite9
rest-api9
php8
vertica8
golang8
terraform-state8
pyrocms7
exasol7
laravel7
sqitch7
go7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jamiefdhurst/obsidian-auto-tasks
Nov 2024 - May 2026
Obsidian plugin to combine periodic notes with tags and tasks to automatically manage your daily, weekly and project TODO lists. Optionally uses the "Periodic Notes" and "Tasks" plugins.
Contributions:29 PRs, 78 pushes, 46 branches in 1 year 6 months
obsidiannotespkmplugintypescript
jamiefdhurst/yendo-mysql
Dec 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 1 month
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