Summary
Jonathan Hickey is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable payment and backend systems, most recently working on payouts and treasury risk management at Checkout.com and now at T. Rowe Price. He specializes in API design, real-time messaging, and cloud-native architectures using .NET Core, AWS services (SQS, SNS, Dynamo), and infrastructure-as-code with Terraform. Jonathan has a track record of improving operational efficiency—designing unified payment APIs that route across global banking partners—and mentoring mid and junior engineers to raise team standards. His background includes migrating legacy systems, performance optimization, and automating build and release pipelines across Azure DevOps, TeamCity and Octopus. Based in Tonbridge, UK, he pairs practical engineering with a product-minded approach to help merchants expand geographically through robust, auditable payment flows. An early tinkerer who built Raspberry Pi prototypes during a student R&D project, he brings curiosity and pragmatic problem-solving to complex distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Systems, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Systems at University of Limerick