Summary
Justin Holmes is a Systems Software Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and operating large-scale cloud and data platforms, active on AWS since 2008 and GCP since 2011. Based in Zürich, he has led and delivered multi-petabyte data infrastructures and cloud migrations across finance and consumer sectors, including roles at UBS, Credit Suisse and Just Eat. He combines hands-on platform engineering with leadership experience as Director of Nascency and founder of a low-latency ticketing startup, showing strength in both architecting resilient systems and building high-throughput services. His background spans big data, streaming, and distributed systems tooling (Spark, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Mesos) and practical cloud security and networking patterns like VPCs and IPSEC. Notably, he has repeatedly been brought in for migration and proof-of-concept projects, reflecting a track record of solving thorny operational and scale challenges.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Business IT, BSc (Hons) Business IT at Bournemouth University
Peter Symonds College