Jamie Lynch
Principal Engineer at Sky
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJamie Lynch is a Principal Engineer based in Leeds with 8 years' experience building operations, observability and developer tooling for large-scale streaming and consumer platforms. Currently leading efforts at Sky to deliver operations and insights tooling that powers Global Streaming Platforms, Jamie blends backend API design, ingestion pipelines and front-end dashboards to turn complex telemetry into actionable workflows. His background spans site reliability, monitoring and developer experience across Sky, Deliveroo and The Guardian, with hands-on work in IaaC, React component libraries and Elastic-based ML monitoring. Known for creating pragmatic automation—like API gateways, incident reporting forms and automatic dashboard generation—he focuses on reducing cognitive load for operators and non-technical users. Trained originally in aeronautical engineering and experienced in production event tech, Jamie brings a systems-thinking approach and an appetite for applying research-style problem solving to real-world operational challenges.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Aeronautical Engineering Aeronautical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering Aeronautical Engineering at Loughborough UniversityColonel Frank Seely School
English
Github Skills (82)
guardian10
rendering10
aws-cdk10
updating9
cli-tools8
spellchecker8
aws8
merge8
protected8
tooling7
run-command7
component-library7
traceability7
languagetool7
ssm7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/master-to-main
Sep 2020 - Apr 2023
A CLI tools written in TS to automate updating a GitHub repository master branch to main
Contributions:84 reviews, 129 PRs, 175 pushes in 2 years 7 months
commandlinemasterautomationupdatingtypescript
guardian/cdk-cli
Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
A CLI tool to simplify working with the @guardian/cdk library
Contributions:108 reviews, 174 PRs, 217 pushes in 4 months
guardiancli-toolcdk-librarysimplifycdk
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