Isaac Hinman is a founder-CTO and seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building consumer-facing web platforms and payments infrastructure from Glasgow. He currently co-leads two fintech startups—Sway and Marco—focused on instant, pan‑European, no‑fee payments powered by open banking, blending product vision with hands-on engineering. Isaac’s background spans senior engineering and management roles at Juul and Trainline and founding CTO stints at earlier startups, giving him deep experience scaling teams and systems. An active open-source contributor, he has improved internationalization and Next.js examples in the widely used i18next ecosystem and taught React as an instructor for HackYourFuture, showing a commitment to developer education. His academic mix of design/media and philosophy informs a pragmatic, user-centered approach to technical leadership and product design.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Design & Digital Media (M.Sc.), Master's Degree Design & Digital Media (M.Sc.) at The University of Edinburgh
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy at The University of British Columbia
Contributions:144 releases, 167 reviews, 438 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Isaac refactored the application to use a class-based approach, including changes to the `app-with-translation.js`, `lng-path-detector.js`, and `next-i18next-middleware.js` files. They also added an example and added support for locale subpaths, implementing modifications to the `Link` component, as well as the addition of `lng-path-corrector.js` and changes to the `index.js` and other files. Furthermore, the user fixed an incorrect language translation bug and added the ability to specify an ignoreRoutes config option.
This repository contains all the material for the HackYourFuture module "React.js: Building dynamic UIs with modern JavaScript"
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:42 commits, 56 PRs, 30 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Isaac primarily worked on the front-end of the "React.js" repository, focusing on the implementation of interactive UI components. Their contributions include refactoring the clocks example, adding new features such as the counter and blog-app examples, as well as updating and merging changes. The user also made some styling adjustments and added the necessary dependencies for the applications.
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