Summary
Sam Hogarth is a Principal Engineer with 13 years’ experience building cloud platforms and high-performing engineering teams across finance, energy and biotech. He currently provides technical oversight for AWS, Azure and Kubernetes platforms (now at Barclays following Tesco Bank’s acquisition), focusing on compliant, secure and fast delivery pipelines. Sam blends hands-on coding across desktop, mobile, web and cloud with engineering leadership, advocating agile, XP and DevOps practices to connect long-term strategy to day-to-day delivery. He has led full-stack development and CI/CD transformations for large financial clients and steered platform governance at the departmental level. Known as “Your Friendly Neighbourhood Software Developer” on GitHub, he’s quick to pick up new technologies and translate them into practical, auditable solutions. His background includes modernising regulated, research-grade software—bringing a pragmatic mix of consultancy rigor and product-focused engineering to platform stewardship.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
1st Class (Honours) Computer Science, 1st Class (Honours) Computer Science at Newcastle University