Jesse Bellingham

Technical Leader | Software Engineer

I’m a Technical Leader and Software Engineer with proven experience steering teams of 8+ engineers toward high-quality outcomes. I’m a polyglot engineer with hands-on expertise across multiple programming languages and technology stacks.

I’ve consistently delivered measurable business impact: 25% faster delivery cycles and 15% increased throughput while maintaining zero production failures. My approach centers on building psychologically safe team environments, mentoring developers, and influencing engineering culture across large organizations.

Experience

Chargefox

August 2025 - present

Senior Engineer

Working on the team owning driver experience at Chargefox. Chargefox is a platform for EV (electric vehicle) drivers to find and use public chargers.

Tes (formerly Education Horizons)

October 2023 - July 2025

Technologies: Java, Golang, PostgreSQL, Docker, Pub/Sub (RabbitMQ, AWS SQS+SNS), React, Tailwind CSS

Key Achievements:

  • Led process and engineering changes resulting in 25% reduction in average cycle time and 15% increase in throughput over 12 months—while maintaining deployment frequency and averaging 0% change failure rate
  • Improved CI/CD flow, reducing average deployment time from 8 engineering hours over 2 days down to 2 hours in a single day
  • Resolved multiple P1 incidents requiring in-depth analysis and debugging of distributed systems

Lead Engineer (June 2024 - July 2025)

Led a cross-functional team of 8 engineers delivering high-impact software solutions:

  • Team Leadership: Growing team capability by evaluating and selecting new hires for technical and cultural fit
  • Technical Vision: Shaping technical direction and enabling incremental change toward that vision
  • Process Improvement: Using systems thinking to identify waste in engineering and delivery processes
  • API Design: Driving RESTful API design for one of the business’s core products
  • Unblocking: Proactively removing or mitigating blockers to enable teammates to execute
  • Mentorship: Encouraging growth by delegating complex work while remaining available for guidance
  • Strategic Influence: Creating and driving technical strategy for front-end technologies across a 100+ person engineering group
  • Component Library: Building reusable React components as part of an internal component library
  • Technology Assessment: Assessing critical choices such as suitable design systems to adopt

I’m a big believer in the value of “glue” work (noidea.dog/glue). A significant chunk of my time was spent unblocking colleagues, giving technical advice, writing documentation and learning resources, planning upcoming work, conducting technical interviews, and debugging thorny support issues.

Senior Engineer (October 2023 - June 2024)

Elevated team engineering standards:

  • Coaching: Teaching software design principles including object-oriented design and domain-driven design
  • Knowledge Sharing: Facilitating discussions on code quality, testing practices, delivery practices, and CI/CD
  • Code Review: Providing constructive feedback to develop stronger software and testing skills
  • Hands-on Delivery: Driving planning and implementation of features like the preschool reform agreement report and data cube export
  • Problem Solving: Using depth of backend experience to diagnose and resolve memory usage issues in critical background processes

Thoughtworks

June 2021 - August 2023

Technologies: .NET, MSSQL, Azure DevOps, React, Docker, Shell scripting

Key Achievements:

  • Led a team of 4 developers to successful delivery of a critical feature (deployment to a pre-prod environment in a pipeline-as-a-service product)
  • Presented multiple brown bag workshops sharing CI/CD and engineering best practices

Senior Consultant - Software Developer (Sept 2022 - August 2023)

  • Designed modular pipeline features that reduced configuration complexity and improved developer experience across multiple internal teams
  • Led technical discussions that shaped product direction and resolved architectural trade-offs with senior stakeholders

Consultant - Software Developer (June 2021 - Sept 2022)

  • Uplifted engineering practices including testing in a product that had many corners cut
  • Enabled better testing practices by implementing ephemeral test environments
  • Championed agile/XP practices including pair programming and TDD, resulting in improved code quality and team collaboration
  • Navigated complex client relationships and competing priorities to deliver solutions meeting both technical and business requirements
  • Mentored/coached less experienced developers

Xero

November 2019 - June 2021

Technologies: .NET, MSSQL, Docker, React, Kubernetes

Key Achievements:

  • Successfully introduced ports and adapters architecture pattern to a monolithic codebase, facilitating decomposition into microservices

Software Engineer

  • Mentored/coached graduate and junior developers
  • Advocated for better development practices and standards
  • Spearheaded engineering quality initiatives that established new testing standards and code review practices
  • Refactored legacy systems to improve maintainability, reducing technical debt and development cycle time

Earlier Roles

Acurus Pty. Ltd. - Software Developer (May 2017 - November 2019)

Quantum IT - Software Developer (November 2016 - May 2017)

Intuto - Software Developer (September 2015 - October 2016)

Contact

Reach me at contact@jessebellingham.com or on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/jesse-bellingham