Phil Haigh
Technical Lead at Equal Experts
St. Austell, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPhil Haigh is a Technical Lead with 12+ years of hands-on experience architecting and migrating JVM-based web and enterprise systems across retail, government, finance and publishing. He combines deep Java/Groovy/Scala expertise with practical infrastructure skills—recently leading cloud migrations to Google Cloud and Kubernetes while also working with Kotlin microservices and CI/CD pipelines. As a longtime consultant and director of his own company, he excels at coaching teams in TDD, pair programming and pragmatic architecture to deliver reliable, high-performance services. His background spans everything from legacy Cobol/C systems to modern cloud-native stacks, and he brings a penchant for maker-style projects (Arduino, 3D printing) that reflect a curiosity for hardware-informed solutions. Based in Cornwall, he balances strategic leadership with day-to-day delivery and live-support experience on high-stakes platforms.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng (Hons), Information Systems Engineering, B.Eng (Hons), Information Systems Engineering at Coventry UniversityM.Sc, Real Time Systems Engineering, M.Sc, Real Time Systems Engineering at University of Bradford
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Github Skills (78)
python10
api10
rest10
java10
hibernate10
jersey10
dropwizard10
jax-rs10
jetty10
mqtt9
home-automation9
cli9
home-assistant9
rest-api9
esp329
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
surfsoft/3d-printing
Jul 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
surfsoft/ClipperRaceTracker
Oct 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch, 4 comments in 1 year 8 months
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