Corin Ashwell
Principal Engineer at Comic Relief
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCorin Ashwell is a Principal Engineer with over a decade of experience building resilient, cost-efficient digital platforms for charities, currently leading engineering at Comic Relief. He architects on AWS and Azure—leveraging services like Athena, S3, Kinesis, Lambda and Azure SQL—to deliver highly available donor and partner-facing systems while keeping operational costs low. A hands-on manager and pragmatic coder, Corin excels at rapidly understanding real requirements, scoping projects methodically, and delivering long-lasting, simple solutions. His stack spans React/Gatsby/Contentful front-ends to cloud data pipelines, and he openly shares work via Comic Relief’s GitHub. Unusually for a senior engineer, his background in history and a later distinction in computer science underpin a pragmatic, research-oriented approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, History, 2:1, Bachelor's degree, History, 2:1 at University of SussexMaster's degree, Computer Science, PG Dip with Distinction, Master's degree, Computer Science, PG Dip with Distinction at Birkbeck, University of LondonGCSEs and A-levels, GCSEs and A-levels at Heaton Manor Comprehensive, Newcastle upon Tyne
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Github Skills (90)
editor10
gift10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
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visual-studio9
microsoft9
assembly9
visual-studio-code9
elasticache8
dotnet8
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
comicrelief/serverless-starter-app
Sep 2019 - Nov 2023
A serverless application to be used as a bootstrap for projects
Contributions:22 reviews, 6 PRs, 20 pushes in 4 years 2 months
boilerplateserverless-applicationsserverlessaws-lambdaaws
comicrelief/cr-mid-code-test
Apr 2022 - Sep 2023
A code test for full-stack developers joining Comic Relief
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 5 months
reactpythonmidreact-testing-librarytypescript
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