Benjamin Hawkes-lewis
Software Engineer at Apple
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBenjamin Hawkes-lewis is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years’ experience designing and delivering full-stack systems, currently building at Apple from a background in technical leadership and architecture. He combines hands-on development with team and recruitment experience, having scaled and led engineering teams through performance, data-pipeline, and integration challenges at VisualDNA. Deeply versed in big data architectures—Kafka, Cassandra, Hadoop—and web standards, he has driven work to triple throughput on short notice and rebuilt pipelines to deliver near-real-time datasets. An accessibility advocate from his Yahoo! days, he brings attention to inclusive design alongside robust backend engineering. Based in London with a BA in History from Oxford, he pairs analytical rigor with practical system-building and a taste for solving thorny operational problems.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA, History, BA, History at University of OxfordSt Paul's School, London
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Github Skills (40)
binaries10
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cli10
homebrew9
macos9
ruby7
linux7
maven7
batch6
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Github contributions (5)
benjaminhawkeslewis/home
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
benjaminhawkeslewis/ase2html
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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