Paul Hodgson
Scala Developer at Equal Experts
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Hodgson is a pragmatic Scala developer and technical lead with nine years of professional experience transitioning from a strong Java background to delivering production-grade Scala services for public sector and financial clients. He has repeatedly shipped backend systems using Scala/Play, MongoDB and AWS, and is comfortable across CI/CD pipelines, TDD, pair programming and cloud deployment tooling like Terraform, Helm and Concourse. Paul has rotated between Equal Experts and Capgemini, bringing contractor agility to long-running engagements at HMRC, States of Guernsey and large enterprises such as American Express and Deutsche Bank. He combines hands-on coding with technical leadership on server-side platforms, often working in open-source-friendly teams and improving build and test automation. With an MSc in Computing Science and a BA in Philosophy, he pairs analytical rigor with practical engineering judgment that helps turn complex regulatory and payments requirements into reliable services.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computing Science, MSc Computing Science at University of Newcastle-upon-TyneBA Philosophy, BA Philosophy at Lancaster University
Github Skills (8)
jenkins10
derived10
groovy9
blockchain5
react5
frontend4
tax1
scheme1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hmrc/agencies-fake
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:11 PRs, 32 pushes, 7 branches in 5 months
hmrc/agent-performance-test-frontend
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 11 days
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