Summary
Rob Hardwick is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience building maintainable, performant and secure web and data systems for clients including Sky, Carlsberg, the Bank of England and the NHS. He blends hands-on development (Python/Django, Docker, Spark, ElasticSearch) with team leadership and architecture, having led development teams, mentored engineers and owned delivery across agency and product contexts. Rob has a track record of shipping data-heavy visualisation and analytics platforms— from an NHS clinical indicators system to a social media analysis prototype using Spark—while ensuring operational reliability on cloud and dedicated infrastructure. He founded a mobile startup and has run full-stack projects integrating REST APIs, mapping and real-time aggregation, showing both product instincts and engineering depth. Recently he has balanced remote principal-level work with a year-long digital nomad adventure across three continents, proving an ability to deliver complex solutions while working asynchronously and across time zones.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bristol Grammar School