Hubert "Hugh" Mann

About

Hi, I’m Hugh. I write software that works (eventually), fix bugs I definitely didn’t introduce, and pretend to understand meetings that should’ve been emails...

I thrive in environments where sarcasm is understood, comments are appreciated, and coffee is available in bulk.

Special interest in solving complex problems with elegant (but not overengineered) solutions—and teaching others to do the same, assuming they bring snacks.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer — Acme Software Labs (Jan 2020 – Present)

• Led development on a microservice so stable it was mistaken for abandoned
• Reduced deployment time by 42% by suggesting “maybe we use CI/CD?”
• Mentored junior devs, taught them the sacred art of git rebase
• Invented the phrase “It’s not a bug, it’s a user-generated performance test”

Software Engineer — NullPointer Innovations (2015 – 2020)

• Built and maintained APIs that occasionally passed QA on the first try
• Integrated with third-party platforms that actively fought back
• Wrote unit tests so beautiful, they made senior engineers weep
• Survived 3 full rewrites of the same feature and only cried twice

Junior Developer — SpaghettiStack Inc. (2013 – 2015)

• Worked with a legacy codebase last touched during the Bronze Age
• Became fluent in “comments that lie”
• Accidentally invented a recursive loop that consumed staging
• Learned the true meaning of “tech debt”

Education

B.S. in Computer Science
University of Somewhere Normal | 2009 – 2013

Skills

• JavaScript / TypeScript / Python / Ruby
• Node.js, Express, React, Vue, Angular
• MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL, Redis
• Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
• Writing clear, maintainable code (after two rewrites)
• Explaining complex tech to non-tech humans without crying
• Debugging with the power of pure intuition and Chrome DevTools
• Pretending to understand AWS billing

Special Abilities

• Can smell merge conflicts before they happen
• Detects production issues five minutes after leaving his desk
• Proficient in Slack emoji diplomacy
• Can lose a pair of socks without leaving his apartment
• Reflects deeply during unit test failures (both emotionally and logically)