Hamish Milne
Senior Software Engineer (IoT) at Spirax Sarco
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHamish Milne is a Senior Software Engineer specialising in IoT with 11 years' experience building hardware-integrated systems, field control software and immersive applications. Based in Bristol, he blends electrical engineering training from Imperial College with hands-on firmware, backend and full-stack work across roles at Spirax Sarco, Ultrahaptics, Rowden Technologies and his own technology director projects. He contributes to open-source tooling—adding TypeScript typings and improving developer ergonomics for desktop graphics runtimes such as window.js—demonstrating a focus on type safety and developer experience. Comfortable leading small teams and shipping end-to-end solutions, he has a track record of turning experimental prototypes into reliable deployed systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2-1, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2-1 at Imperial College London
Github Skills (7)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
2d10
graphics-programming10
typescript-types10
api-design9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
windowjs/windowjs
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Window.js is an open-source Javascript runtime for desktop graphics programming.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Hamish contributed significantly to the project by adding initial typings for the window.js API. This included defining various properties and methods related to window management, input events, and the canvas drawing context. Furthermore, the user added file and process event types, and also fixed various links to documentation within the project's type definitions. This indicates a focus on enhancing the project's type safety and developer experience.
webglwindowingjavascriptruntimewindow
hamish-milne/Lexico
Jan 2020 - Mar 2021
A magical parser for .NET
Contributions:2 reviews, 94 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 1 month
dotnetcsharpparser
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