Mike Hurd
Developer Lead at BGC Group
Reading, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Hurd is a Developer Lead with 12+ years building Java/JVM systems across telecommunications, home-automation/green-energy and finance, currently leading Market Data and Analytics work for BGC’s front-office FenicsLabs. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Java, Spring, J2EE and related tooling with practical leadership in Agile, CI/CD and TDD to deliver resilient trading and middle-office platforms that meet regulatory and performance demands. Past roles include architecting lifecycle management and MPLS VPN provisioning systems and developing IoT-backed energy platforms, reflecting a knack for complex, domain-specific engineering. He actively explores functional programming and modern languages (Clojure, Scala, Erlang/Elixir, Rust, Haskell), bringing fresh paradigms to JVM-centric architectures. Based in Reading, UK, he blends systems-level thinking with pragmatic delivery to evolve large-scale, data-driven platforms.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Computer Science and Philosophy, Bsc, Computer Science and Philosophy at University of Reading
Github Skills (8)
intellij-idea7
intellij-plugin7
jetbrains6
java5
intellij5
plug5
checkstyle5
static-analysis2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mhurd/books
Jan 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:58 pushes in 4 years 8 months
mhurd/scratch-java
Sep 2016 - Jan 2022
Contributions:12 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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