Ho-wan To
Software Engineer at ESG Book
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHo-wan To is a software engineer based in London with 8 years of experience building backend systems in Go and operating distributed services on Kubernetes, AWS and GCP. He has delivered payments and fintech microservices, event-driven systems with Kafka/RabbitMQ, and production-grade platforms at ESG Book, bringing strong domain-driven and hexagonal architecture practices to bear. A former senior structural engineer with an MSc in Architectural Computation from UCL, he combines rigorous engineering discipline with a product-minded approach to full-stack problems. Ho-wan also publishes practical developer tooling—like two VS Code extensions—and has built end-to-end projects that span Go backends, React frontends and relational/noSQL databases, evidencing a hands-on ownership of system design through to UX.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Engineering, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Engineering at University of CambridgeMaster of Science - MSc, Architectural Computation, Master of Science - MSc, Architectural Computation at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
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Github Skills (35)
ui-components10
toggle10
vscode-plugin10
typescript10
pair-programming10
react10
editor9
antd9
electron9
react-components9
trello9
vscode-extension9
ui-design9
pdfjs9
language-design9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ho-wan/vscode-trello-viewer
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
VS Code extension to view Trello cards, lists and boards inside of VS Code.
Contributions:12 releases, 151 commits, 53 PRs in 3 months
vs-code-extensionvscodevscode-extensionlistsvs-code
ho-wan/vscode-setting-toggle
Jun 2018 - Mar 2022
VS Code extension that lets you toggle a custom setting using a button or command.
Contributions:3 releases, 73 commits, 15 PRs in 3 years 9 months
togglevs-code-extensionsettingvscodevscode-extension
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