Exloki
Building engineering organisations that ship. Technical leadership specialising in helping teams transition from informal development to professional software delivery.
Exloki specialises in complete engineering organisation transformation - establishing development practices, building recruitment pipelines, and delivering critical technical work simultaneously. Led by James Holgate with 10+ years of distributed systems expertise and proven experience building engineering teams from scratch. Currently leading Core engineering at Hazelcast while guiding organisations through software modernisation, bringing battle tested practices from high-scale production environments.
Capabilities
Engineering Organisation Building
Complete engineering organisation transformation from informal to professional software delivery. Establish Git workflows, code review processes, testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and development standards. Create recruitment pipelines, interview processes, and onboarding programmes. Develop technical documentation standards, AI coding practices, and AI tool adoption frameworks to establish responsible development practices. Built engineering org from 3 to 25+ engineers with functioning practices and clear career progression.
Technical Leadership & Delivery
Hands-on technical leadership delivering critical features while building team capability. Lead production incident response under SLA pressure, debug complex distributed systems on-site, and ship high revenue features. Identify workflow bottlenecks for AI-driven automation and process optimization to accelerate delivery. Not just advisory - active code contribution, architecture decisions, and customer facing technical communication with proven 60%+ improvement in resolution times.
Distributed Systems Architecture
Deep expertise in high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems from years building mission-critical platforms. Raft consensus implementations, WAN replication strategies, Java concurrency optimisation, and performance profiling. Currently leading Core engineering work on a widely-deployed open source platform serving enterprise production environments.
Rapid Problem Solving
Expert at quickly understanding new technical domains and delivering value from week one. Pattern recognition from diverse experience across gaming, distributed systems, and enterprise software enables immediate contribution regardless of industry. Apply AI tools to accelerate problem analysis, automate repetitive workflows, and identify optimization opportunities within existing processes. No extended ramp-up periods - we start solving problems and shipping solutions immediately while building deep domain knowledge in parallel.