Josh Hiles
Senior Engineer at Jackinabox
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJosh Hiles is a Senior Engineer with nine years' experience building and leading software teams across energy, defence, and public sector projects, currently working at Finova. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering (NodeJS, TypeScript, React, Python) with architecture and DevOps practice—shipping real-time systems deployed via Docker on AWS and migrating CI/CD from Jenkins to GitHub Actions. Josh has led cloud migrations, introduced test automation and infrastructure-as-code in legacy environments, and coached teams in Agile, security-first and sustainable development practices. Parallel to his software career he maintains a long-running freelance camera-operator practice, combining technical rigour with live-event production skills (dolly work at Wembley Arena). That uncommon mix of backstage live-production experience and production-grade engineering gives him a pragmatic systems view and strong cross-disciplinary communication.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Engineering at The Greater Manchester Univeristy Technical CollegeHigh School, High School at North Chadderton High SchoolBachelor of Technology - BTech, IT, Software, Web and Telecommunications, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, IT, Software, Web and Telecommunications at The White Room
Github Skills (13)
dotnet10
refactoring10
ruby9
scanning8
compile6
secrets-detection5
security5
testing5
secrets5
vite4
dynamic3
typescript2
javascript2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JoshHiles/secret-scanner
Sep 2021 - Jul 2024
Scan your repo for secrets & prevent secrets from being committed
Contributions:1 review, 23 PRs, 58 pushes in 2 years 10 months
security-auditscansecurity-toolssecrets-detectionbugbounty
JoshHiles/Scientist.net
Dec 2023 - Nov 2025
A .NET library for carefully refactoring critical paths. It's a port of GitHub's Ruby Scientist library
Contributions:3 PRs, 30 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 11 months
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