Hugh Greene

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ABOUT HUGH GREENE

I see the environment as key to our current polycrisis: it\'s the basis for everything else, and harmful change there will be harder to undo and longer-lasting than in finance, politics, health, etc. I want to use my 30 years of software engineering experience to help avoid, reduce, and mitigate the damage, and restore and invent what\'s needed to help us all survive.If you\'re a small-ish company looking to• go from 0 -> 1 (or 2) without too much technical debt;• scale up rapidly and reliably;• use LLMs without losing quality;• pivot, or find new uses for your code and wisdom;• or grow your engineering team and culture. then I can help, by making software and with the following.• Deliver better solutions by • clarifying strategy, requirements, and risks; • asking hard questions early; • using empathy for users to focus UX and prioritise work.• Solve problems and innovate by • looking broadly in time and scale for consequences and resources; • simplifying systems to improve waste, cost, and reliability; • resolving contradictions and trade-offs. • Improve the development speed and reliability by • baking in quality with TDD, pair programming, test automation, CI/CD, etc; • balancing short-term gains against long-term risks; • optimising tools and processes.• Mentor teams and influence more widely to • treat each other humbly as fellow humans; • continually get better at all the above.Key wins at Canon Medical:• Got leadership support for system-level automated testing which still finds integration issues within 24 hours.• Lead a project scaling to 10x users, steering it to use automated metrics rather than architectural guesswork.Let\'s connect if you\'re looking for full-time, part-time, or even short-term help - specially if you can help me grow my understanding of the many areas of \"green tech\".