Nigel Hawkins
Software Technical Lead at Oxford Lasers Ltd
Greater Reading Area United States
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Top SchoolNigel Hawkins is a seasoned Software Technical Lead with over 15 years of hands-on experience building control, monitoring and automated test systems for industrial and laboratory equipment. He specializes in C++, C#, VB.NET and multi-threaded real-time architectures, routinely applying STL, Boost and .NET libraries to deliver robust, high-reliability software for laser micro-machining and vacuum equipment. Nigel has a strong track record across the full project lifecycle—from embedded and low-level communications to user-facing WinForms interfaces and SQL-backed test frameworks—supported by ISO9001 process experience. An early open-source contributor to LibreOffice, he pairs practical commercial delivery at Oxford Lasers with a history of contract work that sharpened his diagnostic and second-tier production support skills. His background in physics and astronomy underpins a methodical, measurement-driven approach to software design and testing.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Research Student, Astronomy, Research Student, Astronomy at University of SussexB.Sc. (2:1), Physics With Astrophysics, B.Sc. (2:1), Physics With Astrophysics at University of Leicester
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Github Skills (17)
libreoffice10
gerrit10
compression6
versioning6
wpf6
code-analysis6
visual-studio6
winforms6
validation6
java6
wrapper4
scintilla2
windows2
scintillanet2
windows-forms2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
nigelhawkins/lognet
Sep 2011 - Sep 2011
Contributions:6 commits in 3 days
LibreOffice/core
Oct 2010 - Aug 2011
Read-only LibreOffice core repo - no pull request (use gerrit instead https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/) - don't download zip, use https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bundles/ instead
Contributions:153 commits in 9 months
gerritlibreofficetdf
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