Dave Houlbrooke
Lead Developer, Nowomed at Naturecan
Marple, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarDave Houlbrooke is a pragmatic lead developer with 12 years building high-quality web and cross-platform applications across startups, agencies, and his own consultancy. Currently leading development at Naturecan (Nowomed), he has deep hands-on experience with TypeScript, React, Firebase/Firestore and Google Cloud, and a track record of translating product vision into polished user experiences. He founded SHAX and co-created Cardivore’s drag-and-drop publishing platform, showing a knack for reusable frameworks and fast iteration in client-facing projects. At CandidSky he scaled delivery and client relationships while leading an 8-person team, blending technical leadership with commercial sense. Known for thoughtful, design-aware engineering, he pairs front-end polish with pragmatic backend solutions and an appreciation for elegant, performance-focused code. Outside work his GitHub bio hints at a poetic sensibility—an unusual creative streak for a seasoned developer.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
340reputation
2.5mreached
8answers
0questions
Github Skills (123)
github10
testing10
publish10
svg10
bundler10
declarative10
jsx10
optimization10
javascript10
type-check10
optimizer10
svg-files10
github-desktop10
shared10
minification10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dhoulb/alfred-snippet-generator
Dec 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
dhoulb/blork
Nov 2017 - Jan 2021
Argument checking in Javascript.
Contributions:60 releases, 263 commits, 16 PRs in 3 years 3 months
javascriptcheckingvalidation
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