Leon Hewitt
Senior Software Developer at Moonpig
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLeon Hewitt is a Senior Software Developer with 13 years of experience modernising and maintaining mission-critical systems across financial services and consumer tech. Based in London, he specialises in transforming legacy codebases into more maintainable, change-friendly platforms while championing agile practices and Test Driven Development. His career spans senior roles at Moonpig, MarketInvoice and OpenTable, where he has combined hands-on engineering with technical leadership responsibilities. With a PhD in Chemistry from Manchester University, he brings a researcher's rigor to problem decomposition and automated testing. Colleagues describe him as someone who prefers pragmatic, incremental improvements that reduce long-term cognitive load on teams and accelerate delivery.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemistry at Manchester UniversityGithub contributions (5)
DocLeon/PaymentsInAPerfectWorld
Jan 2013 - Jan 2013
Contributions:15 commits in 4 days
DocLeon/ruby-checkout
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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