Joe Lewsey
Senior Software Engineer at Ryft
Bath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Lewsey is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bath with a decade of professional experience and over 15 years of hands-on full-stack development, specialising in front-end engineering with TypeScript and React. He has led technical teams and architected shared libraries and cross-platform solutions at Rocketmakers, and now brings that product-driven leadership to Ryft. His background spans a broad stack—React, Node.js, ASP.NET (C#), PostgreSQL, SCSS and Ionic Capacitor—paired with DevOps experience using Docker and modern workflows. Joe combines fast iteration at startups with disciplined engineering practices, mentoring juniors and managing client-facing technical delivery. Unusually for a senior engineer, he began in music technology, which informs a thoughtful, user-focused approach to UX and interactive design.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Music Technology, 2:1, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Music Technology, 2:1 at The University of Huddersfield
Github Skills (51)
converting9
rewrite9
react8
cordova-ios8
react-component8
bootstrap8
api-client7
caching7
typescript7
fetch7
api7
rest-api6
component-library6
nodejs6
rest6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Rocketmakers/api-hooks
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
A front-end library for converting a REST API client into a library of useful React hooks for fetching, caching and displaying external data. The library is written in TypeScript and compiled to a JavaScript node module and accompanying typings.
Contributions:2 reviews, 96 commits, 35 PRs in 1 year 11 months
react-hooksfetchingconvertingreactjscompiled
Rocketmakers/api-swr
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
A TypeScript library that provides a convenient wrapper around SWR state management library. It allows developers to easily interface with a TypeScript API client while managing client side state
Contributions:1 review, 43 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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