Joshua Hornby
Head Of Platform Engineering
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoshua Hornby is a Head of Platform Engineering and product-minded technical leader with 11 years’ experience building and scaling full‑stack teams and platform services across ecommerce, fintech and marketplace businesses. He combines hands‑on engineering (TypeScript/Node, React, AWS serverless & CDK, PHP/Laravel backgrounds) with line management and delivery ownership, having progressed from developer to principal and head roles at Journey, cinch, Housemates and founding engineering at ChooseMyCar. Joshua focuses on data‑driven, iterative product development and event‑driven architectures to deliver measurable business KPIs while nurturing high‑performing cross‑functional squads. Based in Manchester, he brings a pragmatic blend of hands‑on infrastructure skills and strategic product leadership, with a track record of introducing observability, TDD and cloud automation into teams to improve reliability and delivery velocity.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons, Multimedia Internet Technology, BSc Hons, Multimedia Internet Technology at The University of Salford
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Github Skills (200)
javascript-client10
command-line-tool10
camera10
highmaps10
full-stack10
react-router10
react-wrapper10
php10
mobile10
redux10
raven10
mobile-development10
javascript10
sdk10
react-highcharts10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
fastwebmedia/laravel-hive-api
Feb 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:10 releases, 20 commits, 16 pushes in 7 months
joshhornby/terraform-provider-twiliotaskrouter
Nov 2018 - May 2020
Terraform provider for Twilio Task Router
Contributions:2 releases, 18 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 5 months
terraform-providertwilio-task-routertwilioterraform
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