Lewis Thorley
Senior Software Engineer at Netlify
Dudley, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLewis Thorley is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building web and mobile products, currently contributing to Netlify from Dudley, England. He has a track record of moving between individual contributor and leadership-focused roles, including founding a startup (Reflr) and serving as Technical Lead - Mobile at Boomin. His background spans full-stack and mobile engineering, .NET development, and product-focused delivery across startups and scale-stage companies. Transitioning into tech from a non‑technical BA gave him a pragmatic, product-first perspective that often shapes how he balances engineering trade-offs. He’s comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions and mentoring teams to bridge gaps between product, design and infrastructure. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic, entrepreneurial engineer who thrives in fast-moving environments.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), American/United States Studies/Civilization, 2:1, Bachelor of Arts (BA), American/United States Studies/Civilization, 2:1 at University of Leicester
Github Skills (79)
dependency-management10
windows10
drone-ci10
command-line-interface10
bash10
lua10
nvm10
serverless10
nvim10
javascript10
continuous-testing10
linux10
continuous-delivery10
shell10
cli10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
netlify/netlify-emails-plugin
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
A build plugin to read email templates in the repository and provide functionality to trigger emails using these templates
Contributions:1 release, 12 reviews, 114 commits in 3 months
continuous-deploymenttriggeremailemail-templatesemails
lemusthelroy/little-strawberry
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:20 PRs, 41 pushes, 9 branches in 5 months
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