Justin Hewlett
Staff Software Engineer at Later
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Hewlett is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable back-end services and APIs, currently based in Newton, MA. He prefers the back end and is passionate about functional programming and static typing, applying F# and TypeScript to improve reliability and safer error handling at scale. At Pluralsight he led the Search team’s transition to full‑stack TypeScript, created a Kafka + Lambda pipeline for Elasticsearch indexing, and helped move a monolith to microservices while mentoring engineers in F#. He combines hands-on implementation with people leadership—creating realistic interview challenges, improving onboarding, and running book clubs and pair programming to upskill teams. A continual learner and mentor, he brings pragmatic craftsmanship to distributed systems and developer experience.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at Utah State University
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (47)
maintenance10
othello10
semantics10
redux10
ajv10
maintenance-mode10
pluralsight10
reversi10
validate10
equals10
json-schema9
csharp9
react9
state-management9
api8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jhewlett/react-reversi
Nov 2013 - Jul 2020
Implementation of the game of Reversi (Othello) in React.js.
Contributions:128 commits, 8 PRs, 48 pushes in 6 years 9 months
reactgamegame-ofreact-jsreversi
jhewlett/token.js
May 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:39 commits in 1 year 1 month
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