Jonathan Hughes

Solution Architect

Timeline

  • Solution Architect at RM plc, Oxford

    Played a significant role in the definition and delivery of our architectural roadmap. Gained initial experience acting as a Product Owner.

    Currently delivering order-of-magnitude improvements to our CI/CD processes and providing technical leadership on the usage of Containers & Kubernetes.

    Sep 2018 - Today

  • Systems Engineer at RM plc, Oxford

    Joined as a Graduate. Undertook an exploratory project on the potential applications of Machine Learning within our business and contributed to a whitepaper on the topic.

    Identified and implemented process improvements as well as cost-savings in the areas of monitoring, security and cloud spending. Provided technical and architectural leadership on a variety of projects, working closely with customers and vendors.

    Oct 2016 - Sep 2018

  • Spent time in Hawaii & Fiji during my gap year
  • MEng Electronic and Communications Engineering at the University of Bristol

    Completed a Masters degree at Bristol Uni and achieved a First Class Honours.

    Found a natural inclination towards communications systems and programming - performing strongest in these areas.

    For my thesis Subflow Scheduling in Multipath TCP I explored the performance impact that packet scheduling algorithms have on an experimental networking standard. This involved implementing the algorithms in a C++ network simulator and developing tooling to visualise the results.

    Oct 2011 - June 2015

  • Grew up in Snowdonia, North Wales

Interests

  • DevOps & Cloud Architecture

    Lots of experience working with Azure. Familiar with Kubernetes and enjoy working with it. An advocate for (all pillars of) DevOps.

  • Web Development

    Comfortable with core web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS), Node, Less and React. Actively working on improving my coding skills.

  • Startups & Innovation

    Hoping to explore this space more in the future. For the moment, I just read way too much Hacker News.

  • IoT & Networking

    An interest highly reflected in my degree and thesis.

    In my personal time I have established a site-wide LAN for the family hospitality business and am in the process of deploying energy & water monitoring devices for the surrounding farm.

  • Outdoor swimming

    Re-exploring my childhood love for swimming, but without the pool. Can just about handle the cold!