Summary
Jack Harding is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience specialising in cloud automation, DevOps and infrastructure-as-code, currently focused on upgrading high-velocity delivery pipelines using Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, DataDog and GitLab. He blends hands-on engineering—writing Python deployment tools and automations—with team leadership, having led DevOps teams and the cloud learning path at Bango and NatWest to improve reliability, cost and developer autonomy. His background includes service-based Java systems and database work, and outside of work he pursues AI and game development projects that deepened his skills in OpenGL, shaders, 3D vector maths and audio feature extraction. Based in Cambridge with a Computer Science degree from Aberystwyth, Jack is equally at home improving monitoring and CI/CD as he is prototyping games and ML experiments, bringing a practical curiosity that often drives measurable process improvements. A musician and linguistics enthusiast, he keeps technical knowledge current by running workshops, reading industry research and watching conferences like GDC.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
A-Levels and GCSEs, A-Levels and GCSEs at John F Kennedy Catholic School
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Prifysgol Aberystwyth University
English, French, Swedish, Spanish