Justin Hayes
Director Of Technical Operations
Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Hayes is a results-driven technology leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling technical operations and support functions for high-volume gaming, lottery and consumer tech organisations. He has built multiple global teams from scratch and led departments of 80–100 people across continents, consolidating functions and implementing ITIL-based processes that delivered measurable cost savings and improved uptime. Justin combines hands-on technical understanding of modern stacks (AWS, Kubernetes, ELK, Prometheus) with commercial acumen—having driven multi-million-pound savings through contract optimisation and tooling migrations. He’s skilled at reducing cognitive load on product engineering by creating product support teams and operational tooling, freeing thousands of engineering hours for delivery. Known for pragmatic, incremental change delivered with strong cross-functional collaboration, he thrives on finding the right mix of people, process and tools to turn complex operations into reliable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Loughborough UniversityThe Kings School, Worcester
Github Skills (34)
lit-element10
python10
mqtt10
polymer10
iot10
home-assistant10
raspberry-pi10
frontend10
home-automation10
asyncio9
internet-of-things9
jekyll8
python-app7
telegram-bot7
documentation6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
GussyH/hass-telebot
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 3 PRs, 22 pushes in 11 months
telegram-botsystem-automationassistantmessaging-platformbot
GussyH/hadashboard
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:12 pushes in 1 day
tropicalassistanthacshome-automationhome-assistant
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