Jamie Howarth
Umbraco Architect at BuiltForYou Digital
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJamie Howarth is an Umbraco Architect and ASP.NET specialist with 11 years’ experience designing performant web solutions that reduce cost and improve user experience. As an ASPInsider and long-time consultant, he blends hands-on .NET and DevOps expertise with front-end skills (React/Angular) to deliver end-to-end CMS and marketing platforms for enterprise and SME clients. He founded Redact Technologies, contributes to well-known OSS like Refit to make REST APIs safer and more flexible, and authors technical content for Packt. Jamie’s work emphasizes measurable business impact—revenue uplift, footfall, or streamlined processes—while his Open University BSc in Computing & Psychology underpins a pragmatic, user-centred approach.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computing IT & Psychology, BSc (Hons) Computing IT & Psychology at The Open UniversityN/A Computer Sciences, N/A Computer Sciences at City of Bath CollegeChemistry Mathematics, Chemistry Mathematics at Hayesfield Sixth FormSt. Laurence
French, German, Russian
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Github Skills (23)
api-rest10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
net10
http10
dotnet10
asp-net10
api10
dotnet-core10
rest-api10
csharp10
json9
xamarin9
fileio9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
reactiveui/refit
Feb 2019 - Oct 2020
The automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Core, Xamarin and .NET. Heavily inspired by Square's Retrofit library, Refit turns your REST API into a live interface.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 23 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jamie's contributions primarily involve modifications and additions to the Refit library, which facilitates type-safe REST API interactions. Their work includes implementing features like custom multipart boundaries for file uploads, handling query parameters with different formats, and enabling authorization schemes. Furthermore, they've made improvements to internal code generation, including support for dictionaries as query parameters and enhanced return type handling. These changes collectively enhance the library's flexibility and functionality.
retrofitc-sharpturnstype-safenet-core
jamiehowarth0/refit
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET
Contributions:10 PRs, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
dotnettype-safecsharpxamarinrest
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