Julia Hayward
Software Engineer at Accurx
Home: Eaton Socon, Cambs Work: Shoreditch, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJulia Hayward is a software engineer with 11 years’ experience specialising in backend and database engineering, currently based between Eaton Socon and Shoreditch in the UK. She has deep practical experience in database migration tooling, contributing notable fixes and new DB support to the widely used open-source Flyway project while at Redgate. A mathematician by training, she combines rigorous problem-solving with hands-on debugging across diverse engines (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, H2, MariaDB, Snowflake and more). Beyond code, she is active in community campaigning and charity governance, and brings the discipline of a classical musician and the strategic instincts of a backgammon player to complex engineering challenges. Colleagues know her as a reliable fixer of tricky compatibility and parser issues who enjoys smoothing the edge cases that make software robust in production.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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flyway
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Github Skills (24)
database-migrations10
database-deployment10
database-administration10
java10
javas10
sql10
database-migration10
mysql9
mariadb9
snowflake9
oracles9
postgresql9
hsqldb9
db29
flyway9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
flyway/flyway
Jul 2019 - Oct 2021
Flyway by Redgate • Database Migrations Made Easy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:14 releases, 172 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Julia made numerous contributions to the database migration project, addressing a variety of bugs and feature requests related to database support and compatibility. Their work included implementing support for DB2 11.5, HSQLDB 2.5, and Derby 10.15, as well as fixing issues with SQLite clean operations and H2's Oracle mode. They also addressed issues with MariaDB and Azure, and improved code related to Snowflake databases. Additionally, the user worked on identifying and fixing issues with the Oracle parser and with handling SQL Server specific objects.
sqlserverrdbmsdatabase-migrationscontinuous-deploymentaurora
juliahayward/MSOOrganiser
Jan 2016 - Sep 2022
Desktop management suite and online score reporting for Mind Sports Olympiad.
Contributions:71 commits, 195 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
electronreportingolympiaddesktopmind
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