Johnny Hall
Principal Engineer at Safeguard Global
Peebles, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohnny Hall is a Principal Engineer with 12+ years of hands-on experience building enterprise-scale and startup web applications across finance, social media, and healthcare. He is a full‑stack practitioner equally comfortable shaping domain models and databases as crafting responsive UIs, with deep expertise in Node.js, Ruby on Rails, modern JavaScript frameworks and a legacy of .NET systems. Johnny has led architecture and delivery for major banking transformations, mentored engineering teams, and repeatedly rescued projects under tight deadlines—often as a one‑person delivery engine. Now working freelance and contracting from Peebles, Scotland, he combines technical leadership with rapid learning to pick the right tools—be that Redis, Postgres, RethinkDB or ElasticSearch—to solve real business problems. Colleagues value his pragmatic focus on getting things done and his knack for translating complex domain needs into maintainable systems. An early adopter of web-scale patterns, he still enjoys rebuilding entire stacks when needed and shipping elegant, performant solutions.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PGCE, Design and Technology, PGCE, Design and Technology at Leed University School of EducationBSc Computing Honours 2:1, BSc Computing Honours 2:1 at Napier University
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Github Skills (52)
addon6
emberjs6
nodejs6
primus6
engine-io6
docker6
ember-cli6
mongoose6
twitter-bootstrap6
bower6
ember-cli-addon5
ember-addon4
translate4
adapter4
react4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
recipher/ember-cli-i18next
Nov 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 10 months
cliember-addonember-clii18nextwrap
recipher/service
Nov 2016 - Aug 2021
Contributions:73 pushes in 4 years 10 months
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