Joseph Hallett
Technical Lead - Continua at Birla Carbon
Greater Lincoln Area, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Hallett is a chartered materials engineer and technical lead with over 18 years of experience translating materials science into practical product and process solutions across rubber, automotive, rail and circular carbon markets. Currently Global Technical Lead for Birla Carbon’s Continua™ brand, he drives product launches by aligning production, quality, development and customer support to deliver circular carbon black solutions. He has a strong track record in developing test methods, troubleshooting production issues, and building ISO-compliant quality systems while regularly interfacing with customers on-site to solve complex performance and quality challenges. His background spans hands-on laboratory leadership, R&D management for carbon recovery, and commercial roles that blend technical sales and marketing. An active problem-solver, he has also contributed full-stack improvements to a popular terminal-based Twitter client—enhancing image rendering and 24-bit color support—demonstrating a curiosity for practical software tooling beyond his core materials domain. He holds a PhD and BEng from Loughborough University, combining deep academic grounding with applied industrial impact.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Materials Science, PhD, Materials Science at Loughborough University
English, German
Github Skills (6)
terminal-emulator10
terminal-application10
python10
image-processing10
command-line-interface9
twitter8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
orakaro/rainbowstream
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
A smart and nice Twitter client on terminal written in Python.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 5 days
Contributions summary:Joseph focused on enhancing the image display capabilities of the terminal-based Twitter client. They implemented features to increase image resolution, enable 24-bit color output, and allow images to be resized to fit the terminal window. They added flags to control these new features, enhancing the user experience. Their work also included refactoring to improve overall image rendering.
pythontwitter-clienttwitterterminalcli
bogwonch/bogwonch.net
Feb 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:102 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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