Elliot Hesp
Chief Executive Officer at invertase
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarElliot Hesp is a software engineer-turned-CEO with 12 years of hands-on experience building mobile and full‑stack systems from UI components to backend APIs. Based in England, he leads Invertase while continuing to contribute code and docs across high-profile open-source projects such as React Native Firebase, FlutterFire, and React Native Navigation. His technical work ranges from Android-specific features (notifications, foreground services) to cross-platform Firebase integrations and developer tooling like Melos, reflecting a rare blend of product leadership and deep implementation knowledge. Notably, he’s driven improvements in analytics, transaction robustness for Firebase extensions, and polished developer UX through documentation and example apps—efforts that signal a focus on reliability and developer experience as much as features.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (72)
mobile-development10
ui-components10
testing10
authentication10
navigationbar10
navigation-drawer10
rest-api10
bootstra10
object-cache10
firebase10
repository-pattern10
javascript10
laravel-mix10
laravel10
uid10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
invertase/react-native-material-design
Dec 2015 - Dec 2017
React Native UI Components for Material Design
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 117 commits, 32 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Elliot primarily contributed to the development of UI components for a React Native Material Design library. Their work involved code cleanup, refactoring existing components, and implementing new features like a list component. They addressed usability issues by fixing icon positioning and improved component functionality with additions like the IconButton counter. Moreover, the user added components such as Card and adjusted the code to make them more aligned with Material Design guidelines.
reactreact-native-uireact-nativematerialandroid
invertase/rdash-angular
Jun 2014 - Dec 2018
AngularJS implementation of the RDash admin dashboard theme
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:68 commits, 10 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Elliot primarily focused on front-end development within the rdash-angular repository. They made numerous updates to the CSS files, enhancing the styling and visual elements of the dashboard. These changes involved modifying existing styles, adding new classes, and refining the layout to improve the user interface and user experience. The user also added and updated HTML components to improve the dashboard design.
adminadmin-dashboardangularjsangulardashboard
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