Emma Davies-wilcox
Senior Software Engineer at Fasthosts
Chepstow, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEmma Davies-Wilcox is a senior, T-shaped full-stack engineer based in Chepstow, Wales, with nine years of experience and a frontend focus that spans production web apps and open-source UI work. She currently engineers at Fasthosts and runs Stack-in-a-box, where she combines software development with audio production and entrepreneurship. Her background includes senior roles and a brief CTO stint, demonstrating both hands-on coding and technical leadership across startups and established teams. Emma contributes to open-source projects like literallycanvas, modernising React compatibility and demo tooling—highlighting a practical approach to maintaining legacy web UIs. She holds a first-class BSc in Computer Science from the University of Southampton and brings a creative edge from amateur game development and record production to user-facing engineering challenges. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic refactors, front-end architecture, and steady delivery under shifting priorities.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First-class Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First-class Honours at University of Southampton
Github Skills (5)
html10
javascript10
react10
coffeescript9
canvas9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
literallycanvas/literallycanvas
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
A canvas in your browser. Literally.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Emma primarily contributed to updating the project's React-based user interface. Their commits focused on refactoring the code to use `createReactClass` and `ReactDOMFactories`, and updating the demo application to run on React 16. These changes involved modifying existing components and shimming dependencies to ensure compatibility and maintainability of the React code. They also addressed a viewport attribute casing issue.
ms-paintbrowsernode-canvascanvasjavascript
AmateurPanda92/pokemon-rby-dx
Sep 2019 - Sep 2021
disassembly of Pokémon Red/Blue
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 110 pushes in 2 years 1 month
rustbluemondisassembly
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