Timothy Hughes

Senior Software Engineer | Technical Leader | Open Source Maintainer

About Me

Software engineer with 20+ years of experience building scalable systems and applications across cloud and on-premise environments.

Proven track record developing full-stack applications with modern frameworks (React, FastAPI, Python), architecting data platforms, and leading engineering teams.

Open source maintainer of pgzip, a multi-threaded gzip implementation in Python.

Based in London, United Kingdom with dual British and Australian citizenship.

Professional Experience

Senior Systems Development Engineer

Amazon AWS

May 2021 - February 2026

Designed and deployed full-stack web applications with React and FastAPI. Led development team that built ML-powered planning tools and metrics correlation systems. Technical lead for development team, conducted interviews, and managed project lifecycle from proposal to delivery.

Head of Data Engineering

LMAX Exchange

May 2018 - May 2021

Architected internal data analytics platform serving multiple business units. Built distributed data processing infrastructure using Kubernetes and Python-based analytics services. Led platform development from proposal through delivery.

Head of Systems

LMAX Exchange

May 2008 - May 2018

Built systems infrastructure for global low-latency financial exchange from pre-launch. Grew and led 13-person engineering team across multiple data centers worldwide. Developed automation tools, monitoring systems, and CI/CD pipelines.

Systems Engineer

Multimap

Oct 2005 - May 2008

Maintained high-availability web infrastructure. Led automation project reducing deployment time from days to hours. Implemented Xen virtualization platform for development environments.

Technical Skills

Programming

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • Go
  • Rust
  • SQL
  • Bash

Web & Frameworks

  • React
  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • PyTest

Cloud & AWS

  • Lambda
  • API Gateway
  • CDK
  • EC2
  • S3
  • Redshift

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • SQLite

Infrastructure

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Puppet
  • Ansible
  • Terraform

CI/CD & Monitoring

  • GitLab CI
  • GitHub Actions
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana

Get In Touch

Open to discussing new opportunities, collaborations, and interesting projects. Based in London, United Kingdom.