Lee Watson
Lead Developer at Tunstall Healthcare (UK)
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLee Watson is a pragmatic Lead Developer with over three decades of commercial software experience and 12 years focused on modern enterprise stacks, delivering robust WPF, .NET, and full‑stack JavaScript solutions across finance, healthcare, emergency services, manufacturing and retail. He has led small engineering teams and driven high‑visibility projects—such as Fidelity’s Equity Workspace used by 800+ analysts and a Universal Payments Platform at AccessPay—while consistently turning complex domain requirements into simple, user‑centric interfaces. Lee is skilled at rapid prototyping, performance tuning and mentoring, with proven reductions in processing times and a track record of raising code quality through TDD and architecture improvements. He contributes to open source backend work (notably enhancing DiscordSRV’s message handling and permissions) and enjoys solving subtle integration and UX edge cases that often go unnoticed. Comfortable in contract and permanent roles, he quickly adapts to client culture and thrives in cross‑functional teams where pragmatic engineering meets measurable business value.
12 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Open degree, Computer Software Engineering, BSc Open degree, Computer Software Engineering at The Open University
Github Skills (13)
javas10
plug10
bukkit10
discord-js10
discord10
java10
spigot10
plugin10
rights-management9
access-management9
permission9
minecraft9
jde8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
DiscordSRV/DiscordSRV
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Discord bridging plugin for block game https://modrinth.com/plugin/discordsrv
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 4 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Lee primarily worked on escaping markdown characters within messages sent to Discord to prevent unintended formatting issues. They modified Java code within the `DiscordSRV` plugin, focusing on how player names, display names, and death messages are handled. The user also added a new permission setting, `discordsrv.admin`, and updated related permissions checks, indicating involvement in access control and administrative features. These changes are centered around enhancing the interaction between a Minecraft server and a Discord server through the plugin.
leaderboardminecraftmodrinthdiscordmineflayer
TheReverend403/revthefox.co.uk
Oct 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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