Kent Hawkings
Senior Software Engineer II at Zappi
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKent Hawkings is a Senior Software Engineer II based in London with a decade of experience building reliable, user-focused products across mobile and web platforms. As a co-founder and lead engineer at Lessonspace and Code4Kids, he has taken features from concept to production, owning Django APIs, mobile apps, integrations (Zapier, Moodle) and DevOps on AWS. At Zappi he transitioned from maintaining a legacy Rails reporting system to designing a fast, fault-tolerant Elixir/Phoenix backend for narrative-driven survey storytelling, while mentoring peers and contributing to the React frontend. His background includes leading mobile teams and shipping native Android/iOS apps and PWAs, with repeated responsibilities for onboarding and quality assurance. Kent blends entrepreneurial leadership with hands-on engineering, pairing product sensibility from board-level discussions to day-to-day implementation. He brings a pragmatic focus on performance, reliability and developer enablement that isn’t obvious from job titles alone.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) (Hons.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) (Hons.), Computer Science at University of Cape Town
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (46)
stripe9
django-models9
local-database8
django8
fintech8
finance8
billing8
java7
android7
django-orm7
firebase7
python7
dependency-injection7
kotlin7
cropper6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Intellection/zexbox
Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
Logging, Metrics and Feature Flagging in Elixir. Brought to you by Zappi.
Contributions:10 reviews, 40 PRs, 78 pushes in 1 year 3 months
elixirfeature-flagsloggingmetricstelemetry
Superbalist/twoway-view
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 13 pushes in 4 days
kotlinjavarecyclerviewandroid
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