Jake Hill
Principal Software Engineer at BT Group
Wyre Forest, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJake Hill is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience designing, running, and debugging microservices across physical hardware, virtual machines, and Kubernetes. He combines a support-first background with hands-on platform and security engineering at companies like Zopa and BT Group, giving him a keen eye for developer experience and production pitfalls. Comfortable across operations and development, he focuses on delivering reliable, secure systems quickly while reducing operational toil. His career spans hosting, DevOps, cloud-native roles and platform security, so he often spots implementation issues early that others miss. Based in Wyre Forest, England, he brings pragmatic engineering rooted in real-world ops and an appetite for improving both delivery speed and production resilience.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Apprenticeship IT Systems, Apprenticeship IT Systems at Zenos
English
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Github Skills (200)
api-management10
python10
security10
consul10
istio10
pip10
namespaces10
microservices10
ansible-role10
ssh10
service-mesh10
python-development10
charts10
linux10
kubectl10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
naphta/py-defer
Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
A simple golang-esque deferral system for python.
Contributions:3 releases, 19 commits, 2 PRs in 11 months
golangpython
naphta/geometry
Apr 2021 - Oct 2025
geometry is a minimal, fully customizable and composable zsh prompt theme
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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