Lewis Cawte
Engineer - Permanent Way at Transport for London
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLewis Cawte is a Permanent Way Engineer with 13 years' experience combining hands-on railway engineering at Transport for London with software and startup leadership. He co-founded and directs ShoutWiki, managing production MediaWiki hosting and monetisation while contributing backend refactors to the high-profile MediaWiki project. Comfortable with both field engineering and server-side code, he has progressed from graduate roles into permanent way engineering while maintaining operational responsibility for multiple Ubuntu production servers. An active member and ambassador in industry bodies (Young Rail Professionals, PWI), he brings community leadership and a practical safety mindset to projects. Outside work he leads a local Scout group, translating youth leadership and mentoring into team development skills. This blend of rail infrastructure experience, open-source contribution, and entrepreneurial tech stewardship makes him adept at bridging operational reliability with pragmatic software improvements.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Civil Engineering, 2:1, BSc (Hons), Civil Engineering, 2:1 at University of DerbyLonghill High SchoolGCE: History, Computing | BTEC Subs. Dip.: Applied Law | AS Level: Business Studies, GCE: History, Computing | BTEC Subs. Dip.: Applied Law | AS Level: Business Studies at BHASVIC
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Github Skills (8)
php10
mediawiki10
refactoring10
api10
apidoc10
architecture9
architectures9
wikipedia8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/mediawiki
Aug 2014 - Jun 2016
đ» The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Lewis primarily focused on refactoring and removing deprecated code within the MediaWiki core. They addressed various deprecation warnings, including the removal of unused functions and classes within the `SpecialEmailUser` and related API files. These changes included the modernization of the code by integrating the use of service classes and removing older, less efficient functions. These updates streamlined functionality and improved code maintainability within the MediaWiki platform.
collaborative-editingmediawikiphpwikiwikipedia
lewiscawte/NoSuchWiki
Aug 2014 - Jul 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 9 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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