Gavin Hodge
Chief Technology Officer at Wink Reports
Greater Newcastle Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGavin Hodge is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of hands-on software engineering experience, currently serving as CTO at Wink Reports where he oversees product roadmap, engineering delivery, CI/CD and infrastructure monitoring. He has founded and led multiple startups—building full-stack SaaS products with Python, Django, Celery and PostgreSQL—and earlier cut his teeth developing high-availability systems in C# and C++ for enterprise customers. Gavin blends strategic leadership with deep implementation experience, from API integrations (notably extending the pyxero Python client to support Xero purchase orders and authentication scopes) to distributed task processing and automated testing. He has a track record of shipping pragmatic automation and deployment tooling that improves operational reliability and customer outcomes. Based in the Greater Newcastle Area, he pairs technical breadth with a musician’s discipline—holding a B.Music alongside his Software Engineering degree—which surfaces in thoughtful, user-friendly product design.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B. Music, Double Major: Piano, Drum Kit, B. Music, Double Major: Piano, Drum Kit at University of Newcastle
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Github Skills (21)
python10
apidoc10
user-authentication10
authentication10
xero-api10
google-chrome10
api10
oauth10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
batchfile9
windows9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
freakboy3742/pyxero
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Python API for accessing the REST API of the Xero accounting tool.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gavin primarily focused on extending the `pyxero` Python library to support the Xero accounting API. Their contributions included adding support for the 'scope' parameter in authentication, which involved modifications to the authentication classes. The user also implemented and refined tests to ensure the correct functionality of the scope parameter, and expanded the API to support the "Purchase Orders" endpoint. Finally, they integrated the user agent into the Payroll API manager for improved API interactions.
apiaccountingpythonxerorest
impulse-cloud/pyxero
Feb 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
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