Rod Hyde
Principal Software Engineer 2 at Sophos
Greater Oxford Area United Kingdom
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SeniorRod Hyde is a Principal Software Engineer with over 25 years of hands-on experience and more than a decade in senior roles, currently shaping resilient product architecture and delivery at Sophos. He blends deep UNIX and C roots with modern software practices to build secure, scalable systems—often focusing on PCI-compliant payments, high-availability operations and disaster recovery. Rod has led cross-functional teams from greenfield tooling to enterprise POS transformations, mentoring engineers while translating complex requirements into cost-effective solutions. His career spans both small engineering shops and Fortune 500 programs, giving him a pragmatic sense for when to adopt off‑the‑shelf versus custom software. Known for producing durable, auditable systems, he also brings a history of authoring red-team analyses and migration tooling that reduced operational risk. Based in the Greater Oxford area, he pairs technical depth with a practical focus on security and long-term maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (69)
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Github contributions (5)
badlydrawnrod/arviss_cpp
Nov 2023 - Mar 2024
A RISC-V Instruction Set Simulator written in C++
Contributions:63 PRs, 162 pushes, 72 branches in 3 months
badlydrawnrod/0x30
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:209 pushes, 34 branches, 1 tag in 5 months
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