Summary
John Hamelink is a seasoned Sr Full Stack Engineer and founder with 14 years’ experience building and leading engineering teams from startups to scale-stage firms across the UK. Based in Glasgow, he blends hands-on full-stack development with product-minded leadership, having led engineering at Medic Creations, served as Lead Backend Engineer at Financial Cloud, and held senior roles at Globacap and Honeycomb TV. He repeatedly founds and runs technical businesses (FarmGeek, Find a Player, Nithsdale Consulting) where he solves practical problems in realtime systems, hardware integration, and automation, favoring pragmatic, user-focused solutions. Meticulous and industrious, he champions FOSS and “code with empathy,” bringing both grit and a collaborative ethos to complex projects.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Biggar High School
English, German