Hemal Varambhia
Senior Technical Coach at Simply Business
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHemal Varambhia is a Senior Technical Coach based in London with 11 years of experience rescuing and modernizing legacy systems while coaching teams to sustainable engineering practices. With a PhD and MSci in theoretical and mathematical physics from UCL, he brings a rigorous, analytical approach to software design and problem decomposition. He progressed from hands-on product engineering and API work to team leadership and staff engineering before focusing on technical coaching at Simply Business. A pragmatic polyglot, Hemal enjoys Smalltalk and Rails and has contributed Ruby translations and refactorings to well-known kata collections like Racing-Car-Katas. He blends deep technical craft—testing, refactoring, and configuration management—with mentorship to help teams reduce technical debt and ship reliably. Not obvious from titles alone, he pairs scientific curiosity with practical delivery, often turning legacy codebases into teachable moments for engineers.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University College London
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Github Skills (6)
object-oriented-programming10
ruby10
unit-testing8
algorithm7
algorithms7
html5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
emilybache/Racing-Car-Katas
May 2015 - Aug 2015
Several code katas on a racing car theme
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 5 PRs, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Hemal primarily focused on translating code katas related to racing car themes into Ruby. Their contributions included implementing classes and strategies for braking, converting text to HTML, and creating a leaderboard. The user also refactored code, corrected syntax errors, and integrated updates from the upstream repository. The user demonstrated proficiency in adapting existing logic into Ruby and writing unit tests.
car-racingracingjavascriptkatascar
hemalvarambhia/carwow_bitmap_editor
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:209 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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