Filip Hnízdo
Director at Octophin Digital
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFilip Hnízdo is a director and full‑stack web developer with 11 years of experience building interactive maps, data visualisations, apps, games and databases for conservation, arts and heritage organisations through his agency Octophin Digital. A former newspaper journalist and trained linguist, he combines storytelling and user-centred design with pragmatic JavaScript and backend engineering to deliver projects that have been featured by outlets such as the BBC and Ars Technica. He cut his teeth creating CMS and real‑time web systems (including an open-source Node.js framework) and has a track record of shipping self-led products from e-commerce to bespoke web apps. Based in London, he also pursues digital art and music, bringing a multidisciplinary creative lens to technical problems. Colleagues value his blend of editorial rigor, technical curiosity, and consistent hands‑on leadership in small teams.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
NCTJ, Journalism, NCTJ, Journalism at Lambeth CollegeBachelor's degree, Philosophy, 2:1, Bachelor's degree, Philosophy, 2:1 at University of ReadingTypography, Typography at University of the Arts LondonMaster's degree, Linguistics and Philosophy, Merit, Master's degree, Linguistics and Philosophy, Merit at King's College London
English, Czech, German
Github Skills (26)
mongoose10
expressjs10
modular9
web-application9
mongodb9
nodejs8
application-framework8
content-management7
data-access-layer6
mustache4
abstraction4
css4
graph4
abstraction-layer4
graph-database3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
FilipNest/Iris
May 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:10 PRs, 271 pushes, 73 branches in 2 years
cmsnode-jsjavascriptweb-applicationframework
FilipNest/filip-home
Jun 2016 - Jun 2024
Homepage
Contributions:2 PRs, 221 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 1 month
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