Jaye Hackett
Chief Technology Officer at Vouchsafe
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJaye Hackett is a London-based Chief Technology Officer with a decade of experience building digital ID, fraud prevention and KYC/AML technologies for regulated and public-sector contexts. As CTO of Vouchsafe, she leads an award-winning, photo-ID-free onboarding SaaS backed by Innovate UK and civic investors, blending product strategy with hands-on engineering. Her background spans senior engineering and product roles across civic tech and public services, where she redesigned social care tools, emergency case management systems and data standards. A strategic designer and civic technologist who co-runs Interrobang, she also contributes backend improvements to community projects like the popular codebar planner, showing a commitment to inclusive tech and developer-friendly tooling. Notably, her career bridges journalism, user research and technical leadership—giving her a rare mix of storytelling, user empathy and system-building skills.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
A-levels Biology Physics Psychology English literature, A-levels Biology Physics Psychology English literature at Solihull CollegePG.Dip Broadcast Journalism, PG.Dip Broadcast Journalism at The University of Sheffield
English
Github Skills (10)
database-migrations10
activerecord10
database-migration10
rails10
backend10
back-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
postgresql9
rspec8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
codebar/planner
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
🗓 the main codebar site
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 25 commits, 4 PRs in 6 days
Contributions summary:Jaye primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the codebar planner site. Their work included adding features for selecting and modifying controllers, as well as adding database migrations. They also implemented a sponsors search feature and made changes to event invitation mailers and controllers related to the administration of events. The user also refactored existing code to improve performance and ensure correct validation of inputs.
ruby-on-railsnextjsrubycodebar
LBHackney-IT/lbh-social-care-frontend
May 2021 - Apr 2022
The Social Care Frontend allows Social Care Practitioners to edit cases and residents information.
Contributions:215 reviews, 115 commits, 243 PRs in 11 months
casespractitionersresidentsfirebasecare
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