Henry Hobhouse
Staff Engineer at Zoa
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHenry Hobhouse is a Staff Engineer and former founder with nine years in software and a longer track record building and exiting e-commerce ventures, combining product leadership with hands-on full‑stack engineering. Based in London, he has progressed from founding startups to technical leadership roles at fast‑moving companies like Zoa, Bulb and tray.io, shipping customer-facing systems and driving product strategy. He pairs strong business analysis and KPI modelling with practical engineering — helping teams turn stakeholder goals into measurable product direction. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved react-admin’s ArrayInput behavior, demonstrating attention to UX edge cases and form-state correctness. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical lead who hires and mentors high-performing teams while staying deeply involved in code and product decisions.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at MakersTelecomunication and Electronic Technolgy, Telecomunication and Electronic Technolgy at University of Warwick
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Github Skills (15)
web-framework10
typescript10
typescripts10
frontend10
admin-interface10
admin10
web-frontend10
react10
typescript-types10
react-admin10
javascript9
material-ui9
jtest8
jes8
jestjs8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
marmelab/react-admin
Jun 2023 - Jun 2023
A frontend Framework for single-page applications on top of REST/GraphQL APIs, using TypeScript, React and Material Design
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 1 PR, 8 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Henry primarily contributed to the `react-admin` framework, focusing on enhancements to the `ArrayInput` component. Their work involved fixing bugs related to default value handling and ensuring the form state is correctly updated and marked as dirty when array inputs are modified. The contributions included refactoring test code to use `RecordContextProvider` and incorporating a single hook for managing default values across different input types.
on-topreactjsreact-adminbrowserjavascript
henryhobhouse/react-query-workshop
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
An example repo I used to teach a React Query workshop
Contributions:5 reviews, 27 PRs, 79 pushes in 1 year 2 months
queryreactworkshopexample-repoteach
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