Max Hooton
Owner at chewedfeed
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Hooton is a seasoned polyglot software engineer and founder with 13 years of hands-on experience building backend systems in Go, Node.js and TypeScript while running his own venture, ChewedFeed. He has delivered production services across finance, telecoms and e‑commerce at organisations such as Citi, Bud and Rentalcars, with a strong focus on developer roles rather than management or DevOps career paths. Comfortable working in containerised cloud environments, he pairs pragmatic engineering with SRE experience and has contributed UI-focused enhancements to well-regarded open-source projects like Waybar. Based in Manchester, he prefers to stay deeply technical and continues to ship code and run product work from idea to production. Colleagues know him for practical problem-solving, clear ownership, and a taste for improving user-facing tooling alongside robust back-end systems.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ivy Bank High SchoolNelson & Colne
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
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github6
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
Alexays/Waybar
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 1 PR in 3 days
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on modifying the `upower` module, likely related to power management functionality within the Waybar. Their contributions involved adding or modifying features triggered by button clicks, specifically related to the `handleToggle` function. These changes included addressing syntax issues and adding or modifying the `alt text` functionality for the upower module. The changes suggest an emphasis on enhancing the user interface and functionality.
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Keloran/go-healthcheck
May 2019 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 release, 15 PRs, 26 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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