Jack Witchell
Senior Consultant at Netcompany
Arun, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Witchell is a Senior Consultant and Scala-focused software engineer with eight years of experience building and maintaining web and backend systems across government and consultancy environments. He has practical expertise in Scala, Play, JavaScript, MongoDB and DevOps tooling (Jenkins, Kibana), and has led and mentored junior developers while delivering user-facing services such as digital government forms. A frequent contributor to HMRC’s email-renderer, he’s comfortable crafting and refactoring templated communications for complex public-sector flows like Excise, IPT and APD. Based in Arun, England, Jack combines a hands-on, code-first approach with a background that progressed from service desk and apprenticeships into senior technical delivery, demonstrating strong operational awareness alongside software craftsmanship.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Level 4 Software Developer Computer Software Engineering, Level 4 Software Developer Computer Software Engineering at QAHigh School, High School at The Angmering School
Github Skills (5)
html10
templater10
template-engine10
template-tags10
scala10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hmrc/hmrc-email-renderer
Mar 2018 - May 2019
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 19 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to the development of email templates within the `hmrc-email-renderer` repository. Their commits introduced and modified templates for various HMRC services, particularly focusing on Excise and Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) confirmations, and Aggregates Levy (AL) returns. They also refactored existing templates and added new ones related to gaming duty and Air Passenger Duty (APD), indicating a strong involvement in maintaining and expanding the system's email capabilities. The user frequently updated content and structure of the email templates.
WitchellJack/hmrc-email-renderer
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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