Josh Heng
Software Engineer at Minster Laundry & Ironing Ltd
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJosh Heng is a Cambridge-based software engineer with 8 years' experience building user-focused web products, currently at Gearset. He combines strong front-end expertise—demonstrated by UX and interactivity improvements to high-visibility open-source projects like CircuitVerse—with full-stack production work on Vue/NestJS stacks and infrastructure management. Comfortable taking ownership from server provisioning to accessible UI features, Josh has led product launches and events at companies such as Shockbyte and in student organisations, and helped scale services used by thousands. A First Class Computer Science graduate from the University of Warwick, he brings an unusual blend of hands-on coding, ops experience, and community-driven contributions that improve discoverability and usability in educational tools.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels, Maths, Further Maths, Physics & Computer Science, A* in Maths, Further Maths, Physics & Computer Science. A* in EPQ, A Levels, Maths, Further Maths, Physics & Computer Science, A* in Maths, Further Maths, Physics & Computer Science. A* in EPQ at Hull Collegiate SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, First Class Honours at University of Warwick
Spanish, French, English
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Github Skills (21)
circuit10
javascript10
circuit-breaker10
css10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
html10
react-router10
react10
user-interface9
jquery9
graphical-user-interface9
fest9
ed255199
tailwindcss9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
CircuitVerse/Interactive-Book
Dec 2019 - May 2020
Interactive Online Book on Digital Logic Design
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 10 PRs, 58 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and interactivity of the interactive book. Their contributions include adding shareable links to headings and navigation elements, improving the display with previous/next buttons, and implementing a pop quiz system after each page. They also made updates to navigation and layout elements of the book, along with fixing Netlify deployment issues.
digital-logic
CircuitVerse/CircuitVerse
Dec 2019 - Nov 2020
CircuitVerse Primary Code Base
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 13 PRs, 85 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the CircuitVerse repository. Their contributions included updating the "contribute" page with hyperlinked images, adding social media icons to the header, and fixing navigation links. Furthermore, they implemented a feature to highlight search term matches in the search results. These changes collectively enhance user experience and improve the platform's usability.
digital-circuitsdigital-circuit-designeducational-softwarecircuitversebase-code
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