Connel Hooley
Lead Developer at Aviva
Greater Norwich Area, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolConnel Hooley is a Lead Developer based in Greater Norwich with 11 years of experience building and stabilising .NET and web systems, currently guiding a team at Aviva through a large migration to .NET 6. He is a pragmatic C# specialist with strong experience in Akka.NET and the Actor model, SignalR-driven SPAs, and practical full-stack work using Node.js, React and Gatsby/Tailwind for production sites. Connel combines hands-on engineering—improving test reliability, building a widely used TypeScript service-virtualisation tool, and managing CI/CD pipelines—with mentoring and gatekeeping responsibilities as a tech lead. He enjoys applying functional ideas from F# to improve design and reliability, and brings a preference for pragmatic, test-first development born from years of driving TDD adoption. Outside work he’s a keen football and tennis player and an outspoken Newcastle United supporter, which occasionally informs his team-room banter.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering at University of East Anglia
Github Skills (200)
css10
actor10
javascript10
validation10
react-hooks10
typescript10
csharp10
bootstrap10
dotnet9
api9
html9
testing9
aws-s39
yup9
frontend9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
connelhooley/react-oidc
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
A few opinionated React components wrapping oidc-client
Contributions:45 commits, 3 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 months
reactoidcoidc-clientwrappingreact-components
connelhooley/AkkaTestingHelpers
May 2017 - Apr 2020
Akka testing helpers that help you test the relationships between your actors
Contributions:147 commits, 105 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 11 months
akkadotnettestingscalacsharphelpers
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