Hugo Rodger-brown
Founder at YUNOJUNO LIMITED
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHugo Rodger-Brown is a product-focused technologist and founder with 15+ years building high-performance online platforms, most notably co-founding YunoJuno and paying nearly $1bn to freelancers through the marketplace. He combines a strong data-analytic foundation and hands-on coding ability with senior leadership experience as CTO across major digital projects (ASOS, Tesco, Profero), excelling at simplifying complexity and assembling lean, effective teams. Hugo is currently exploring the intersection of AI, ethics, and product development, having completed executive studies in AI and ethics at Oxford, LSE and Cambridge in 2024. An active contributor to open-source Django tooling, he brings practical backend expertise alongside a pragmatic founder’s perspective shaped by weathering IR35, COVID, and the long grind of scaling a marketplace.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at Imperial College LondonArtificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at Saïd Business School, University of OxfordCertificate of Achievement HCI for AI Systems Design, Certificate of Achievement HCI for AI Systems Design at University of CambridgeLondon School of Economics and Political ScienceBSc, BSc at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (16)
rest-framework10
django-rest-framework10
python10
django10
testing10
patch9
rest9
datetime9
heroku6
gunicorn6
elasticsearch6
partial6
signal-handling6
sentry6
django-storages6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
SmileyChris/django-countries
Mar 2017 - Mar 2021
A Django application that provides country choices for use with forms, flag icons static files, and a country field for models.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 3 PRs, 11 comments in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Hugo primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Django application, specifically enhancing the Django REST Framework (DRF) integration. Their work included adding support for country choices in DRF serializers, allowing OPTIONS requests to return supported countries. They also added locale-specific tests, and made code modernization changes by removing Python 2 compatibility. Additionally, they improved the code by converting classes to Python 3 style.
djangostatic-filespythoncountry-codes
yunojuno-archive/heroku-tools
May 2015 - May 2017
Command line application for managing Heroku applications.
Contributions:3 releases, 58 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years
command-lineheroku
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