Oliver Hughes
Staff Software Engineer at Neo4j
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Hughes is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years' experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling, currently focused on Kubernetes operators and Go at Neo4j Aura. His career spans enterprise middleware at Pivotal/VMware, early-stage cloud and DevOps work for UK national security projects, and large-scale data processing with Apache Spark—giving him a rare blend of deep systems, cloud, and data engineering expertise. Oliver has championed Spring on Kubernetes, presented at major conferences like Devoxx and Spring One, and helped create projects such as Spring Cloud Kubernetes and riff to improve developer ergonomics. Based in Southampton, he combines hands-on implementation with operator/operator-pattern design, and has a track record of adopting and shaping technologies (Docker, cloud tooling, Kubernetes) while they were still emerging.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Hardley SchoolBsc Internet Technologies and Applications Computer Science, Bsc Internet Technologies and Applications Computer Science at University of PlymouthComputing Electroics, Computing Electroics at Brockenhurst College
Github Skills (126)
microservices10
cloud-native10
k8s10
kubernetes-cluster10
neo4j10
api-specification10
cypher10
vault10
developer-tools10
git10
kubernetes10
brokers10
graph10
directed-acyclic-graph10
java10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ojhughes/intellij-settings
May 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:63 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
ojhughes/k8s-for-the-busy-java-developer
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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