Denis Howe
Web Developer at Mendeley
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDenis Howe is a seasoned web developer with 15 years of professional experience and a much longer history in computing that dates back to founding the Free Online Dictionary of Computing in 1985. Based in London, he currently builds front-end experiences for user acquisition and onboarding at Mendeley, bringing deep expertise in JavaScript, React and legacy web technologies. His background spans high-stakes server-side systems and game engines in Perl and Node, CMS integrations with Adobe AEM, and automated testing—skills honed at organisations including GVC, BBC and Cashcade. Denis combines pragmatic engineering with systems-level thinking from a physics degree at Imperial College, and he has a long-standing commitment to public-facing technical knowledge through FOLDOC. Not looking for work, he prefers to be approached for collaboration or technical discussion rather than job offers.
15 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (I), Physics, BSc (I), Physics at Imperial CollegeA-levels, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Computing, A-levels, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Computing at Wallingford School
French, Persian, Chinese
Stackoverflow
2,225reputation
898kreached
44answers
4questions
javascript
top-5%
Github Skills (113)
javascript10
css10
editor9
fundamentals9
html9
firefox-addon9
http9
webextension9
web-development9
microsoft9
chrome-extension9
electron9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
documentation9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
denishowe/townscaper
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Generate random save files for the fabulous Townscaper artform.
Contributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 7 months
save-filesfabuloustownscaper
denishowe/mood
Jul 2018 - Aug 2024
Mood App Demo
Contributions:14 PRs, 40 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 2 months
demo-appreact
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