Jesse Hurtado
Chief Technology Officer at Department of Trust
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Hurtado is a Chief Technology Officer and full-stack engineer with seven years of professional software experience, currently leading technology at the Department of Trust from Edinburgh. He blends a strong background in visual design and music with pragmatic engineering—specialising in readable, safe and efficient language and full-stack systems. At Tesco Bank he progressed rapidly from Associate to Lead Software Engineer, delivering user-focused data visualisations and scalable product features across backend and frontend stacks. Trained at CodeClan and academically grounded in sound design and popular music, he brings creative problem solving, UX sensibility and a musician’s attention to detail to technical leadership. Passionate about new technology, he thrives in collaborative teams and often approaches engineering challenges with an interdisciplinary perspective that combines aesthetics, usability and code quality.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Sound Design, MSc Sound Design at The University of EdinburghHND Illustration with Photography, HND Illustration with Photography at Edinburgh CollegeSQA Professional Development Award Software Development, SQA Professional Development Award Software Development at CodeClanBA (Hons) Popular Music, BA (Hons) Popular Music at Edinburgh Napier University
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (4)
mongodb6
nodejs5
full-stack5
javascript5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
self-unit/pie_in_the_sky_game
Sep 2018 - Aug 2022
Full-stack board game inspired by Trivial Pursuits JavaScript/MongoDB
Contributions:71 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 11 months
full-stackjavascriptnodejsboard-gametrivial
self-unit/Project_3
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:30 commits, 24 pushes, 4 branches in 2 days
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