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 (70)
obsidian10
api9
rest-api9
unit-testing9
sqlite9
golang8
terraform-state8
php8
plugin8
exasol7
sqitch7
laravel7
pyrocms7
vertica7
change-management7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jamiefdhurst/journal
Mar 2016 - Jan 2022
A simple blog available as an API, written in Go with accompanying tests and documentation. Can be used as a useful starting point for Go web projects.
Contributions:24 releases, 108 commits, 80 PRs in 5 years 10 months
golangapistarting-pointgopoint
jamiefdhurst/yendo-mysql
Dec 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 1 month
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