Michael Hawkins
Senior Application Developer
Greater Northampton Area, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Hawkins is a Senior Application Developer with 11 years of professional software experience and a background in systems engineering and product development. He excels at applying systems thinking to architect scalable, maintainable enterprise solutions across Rust, JavaScript and SQL stacks while leading cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers. His career spans hands-on delivery roles through to technical leadership at companies like Netcall, Advanced and Kirona, with a track record of driving workflow automation and embedding software quality best practices. Comfortable translating business goals into technical strategy, he’s trusted by stakeholders for clear communication and consistent delivery. Notably, his roots in print and digital production give him practical operational insight into complex domain workflows that inform his pragmatic approach to system design. Based in the Greater Northampton Area, he champions collaborative engineering culture and continuous improvement.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The Open University
Github Skills (24)
lightning10
lightning-network9
segwit9
transaction9
multisig9
bitcoin-wallet9
bitcoin9
wallet9
p2p9
javascript8
reference-implementation6
decentralized-identifiers6
specification5
privacy5
json4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
runcrypto/jsonld-cpp
Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
JSON-LD Implementation for C++
Contributions:5 PRs, 24 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years
json-ldcppjson
hawkmauk/resume
May 2020 - Dec 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 39 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 7 months
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