Gareth Hughes
Chief Architect at CloudPay
Greater Southampton Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGareth Hughes is a hands-on Chief Architect with three decades of Java-centric software architecture experience, currently owning scale, performance, reliability and security for CloudPay’s global platforms. He scaled from hands-on developer to CTO during a period when CloudPay grew from 160 to 1,300 employees, then returned to focus on large-scale modernisation and non-functional excellence. Gareth led major migrations (SVN→Bitbucket, custom DAL→Spring DAO/Transactions), built the company’s REST API, introduced Dell Boomi and Sisense integrations, and drove an Agile transformation to improve delivery at scale. He combines deep academic roots (PhD from the University of Southampton) with practical system-level work—from payroll core refactors to platform governance and compliance (ISO27001/SOC1/GDPR). Known internally as the “Product Owner for Scale,” he routinely takes on the hardest refactoring and integration problems others avoid, ensuring legacy systems remain current and ready for growth.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of SouthamptonBSc Physics, BSc Physics at University of Surrey
Github Skills (16)
java9
pojo9
zendesk9
mapper9
apache-poi9
parser8
java-records8
excel7
converter7
apache4
xlsx3
client-library2
java-client1
object-mapper1
sdk1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gvh1234/tutorials
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
The "REST With Spring" Course:
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 2 months
spring-bootspringframeworkspring-mvcspringrest
gvh1234/zendesk-java-client
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 months
client-libraryzendesksdkjavajava-client
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