Howard Powell
Lead Software Engineer at Artisan Studios
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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Top SchoolHoward Powell is a Lead Software Engineer with 20+ years of hands-on experience and a decade in senior engineering and management roles, currently driving cloud-native, security-focused projects from Fredericton, NB. He blends technical depth in Python, Java, React and AWS with people-first leadership—mentoring teams, coaching across disciplines, and improving delivery and code quality across organizations. At Artisan Studios he led a proactive secrets-scanning system that cut security incidents by 25%, and previously scaled product ARR through platform features and automation at Qualio. He regularly teaches and coaches—running university courses and developer workshops in TypeScript and Python—bringing an educator’s clarity to complex engineering problems. An outdoors enthusiast and former culinary hobbyist, he pairs practical technical craftsmanship with a curiosity for travel and good food.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology / SAIT
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Github Skills (4)
responsive7
docker5
react5
graphql4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CivicTechFredericton/caring-fredericton-ui
Oct 2018 - Sep 2021
Responsive web site project for the Caring Calendar application
Contributions:2 releases, 47 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 11 months
calendarweb-sitecaringresponsiveresponsive-web
CivicTechFredericton/caring-fredericton-api
Jun 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 119 commits, 56 PRs in 3 years 3 months
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