Harrison Baxter
Senior Software Engineer at Yonder
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHarrison Baxter is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with a decade of experience building distributed systems using functional Scala and Kafka. He has progressed from hands-on IT support into backend engineering roles at HMRC (via QA Consulting), OVO Energy, Kaluza, and now Yonder, bringing practical troubleshooting instincts to large-scale service development. Harrison contributes to open-source projects such as the hmrc-email-renderer, where he expanded templating and service integrations, showing attention to production-facing developer experience. He excels at translating complex domain requirements into robust, testable services and is comfortable navigating both legacy ops concerns and modern streaming architectures. Colleagues value his blend of pragmatic problem-solving and steady delivery, often shipping improvements commit by commit.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys.BSc Computer Science Computer Science, BSc Computer Science Computer Science at University of LincolnChaucer Technology School
English
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Github Skills (7)
template-engine10
email-templates10
scala10
system-configuration9
server-configuration9
html9
configurations9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hmrc/hmrc-email-renderer
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Harrison primarily contributed to the `hmrc-email-renderer` repository by adding and modifying email templates and service configurations. Their work involved implementing a new email template for the EEITT service, including HTML and plain text versions, and integrating it into the template locator. Furthermore, the user updated the service identifier and preview template parameters to incorporate the EEITT service. These changes suggest a focus on expanding the email rendering capabilities to support new services within the HMRC ecosystem.
HarrisonBaxter/hmrc-email-renderer
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 22 days
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