Hi, I'm Jack

I've been writing code all my life. My first computer was a Raspberry Pi hooked up to my Dad's old CRT TV. Ever since I made an LED blink I've been in love with the creative power of technology. I'm at the start of my career and I am just so excited! I'm here to build something beautifull, something that helps people and to work out what I mean by that.

Right now I'm a Full Stack Engineer at Urban Jungle, I'm learning a solid foundation in software engineering principles in action, working with a super smart team and learning some cool tech.

I've got a First-Class BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Manchester. I've worked in a broad range of fields like web scraping, NLP and real-time computer vision applications. I work confidently in Python, Linux, TypeScript, SQL, scalable software architecture and I fully believe that any technology can be unlocked by a few weeks of dedicated study.

In my spare time I'm exploring London (I'm new here!), prepping for my next dinner party, filling up my bookshelf or in a random pub; quizzing or gigging!

Career

2024 - Present

Full Stack Software Engineer - Urban Jungle

I'm currently working at UJ an exciting insurtech starup, working to bring fairness and transparency and ease of use to the insurance industry.

I work in small, agile, cross functional teams where I help plan new features, scope functionality with the key stakeholders and implement them!
I'm there from resourcing all the way up to code-review, final product testing, live feature monitoring and urgent fixes (not that we ever need any of those...)

I'm working mostly with Python in the backend and tooling, and Angular for the frontend as well as dabling in platorm work with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker and Gitlab CI/CD.

My favourite project has been working with the Data Science team to refactor and rebuild thir ML pricing pipeline.
I helped optimise it from a multi-day process, to a 2 hour process, with increased visibilty, error handling, testing and ease of use with Dagster, MlFlow (brand new technologies for the company) and platform work.

Python
Typescript
SQL
Dagster
MlFlow
AWS
RabbitMQ

2023 - 2024

Systems Programmer - Skuuudle

Refactored and optimised a legacy web scraping codebase, resulting in a 50% reduction in request volume, lowering operational costs and resource use.
Documented and improved code architecture to allow easy maintenance and ensure seamless developer transitions.
Managed delivery of up to 50 daily client reports, integrating client feedback within tight deadlines.
Designed, automated and implemented a product matching system leveraging NLP techniques on the companies big data

Python
Scrapy
AWS
Web scraping
NLP

Education

2020 - 2023

Computer Science First Class (Hons) - University Of Manchester

2017 - 2019

Reading School

Mathematics (A*), Further Mathematics (A), Physics (A), Computer Science (A)

2012 - 2017

Park House School

11 A*s, Grade 9 Mathematics, Grade 9 English Lit

Jack Hygate

Full Stack Engineer