Kevin Howbrook
Senior Engineer & Tech Lead at Torchbox
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Howbrook is a Senior Engineer and Tech Lead with 11 years of experience building and refining web platforms, currently leading engineering at Torchbox from the UK. He specializes in Python, Django and Wagtail CMS, with a strong backend focus demonstrated by contributions to high-profile open-source projects like the Wagtail repo and the Mozilla Foundation website where he improved author/blog workflows and admin UX. Kevin blends legacy stack experience (Drupal, PHP, MySQL) with modern data and ML interests—Pandas, NumPy and GANs—bringing both practical production sense and curiosity about ML tooling. He is pragmatic about developer experience, having shipped caching, autocomplete and embed improvements in CMS codebases, and often pairs code changes with test and documentation updates.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Illustration, Graphic Design, Illustration, Graphic Design at University of the Arts LondonGeneral studies, PHP, General studies, PHP at Birkbeck, University of London
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Github Skills (17)
cms10
debug10
python10
django10
wagtail10
testing9
documentation9
database-design7
angular6
angular-directives6
angular-pipes6
angularjs6
css6
drupal6
angular-template6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
MozillaFoundation/foundation.mozilla.org
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Mozilla Foundation website
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:168 reviews, 103 commits, 54 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on refactoring and improving the blog author functionality within the Mozilla Foundation website. They made code improvements by simplifying logic within blog index and profile models. They modified tests and documentation. Their work appears to be focused on the Wagtail CMS backend and streamlining how authors are displayed and linked within the blog section.
web-appmozillamozfoundation
wagtail/wagtail
Dec 2017 - Apr 2022
A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 17 PRs, 9 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Wagtail CMS, focusing on improving the admin interface, fixing issues related to caching and autocomplete, and refining the snippet UI. They addressed issues related to content editing, specifically concerning embeds, and made improvements to the documentation. The user also made code changes to address the max length of the embed thumbnail URL field.
cmsmanagement-systempythondjangouser-experience
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