Paul Hawxby
East Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Hawxby is a seasoned full-stack web developer with 13 years of professional experience and a first-class BSc in Web Development from the University of Teesside. Largely self-taught from age 13, he brings deep practical knowledge across front-end and back-end stacks—HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript, TypeScript typings, C#, PHP, SQL, Linux/Windows servers and CI tooling—plus a strong obsession for clean, standards-driven, accessible code. He’s contributed technical fixes to the high-profile DefinitelyTyped repository, improving TypeScript definitions for Node and popular libraries, which underscores his attention to interoperability and developer ergonomics. Comfortable mentoring teams, Paul emphasizes performance, maintainability and IoC/OOP best practices to reduce future technical debt and improve long-term sanity for maintainers. Based in East Hertfordshire, he blends pragmatic engineering with a continuous drive to stay at the leading edge of web development.
13 years of coding experience
BSc Web Development, 1st Class Honours, BSc Web Development, 1st Class Honours at University of Teesside
Github Skills (10)
type-system10
typescript10
static-typing10
typesc10
nodejs10
typescript-definitions10
typescripts10
type-definition10
nodes10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Mar 2019 - Jun 2022
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul's contributions primarily involve fixing and updating TypeScript type definitions within the DefinitelyTyped repository. They addressed missing or incorrect type definitions for various packages, including `http-graceful-shutdown`, `got`, `json-buffer`, and `node (url module)`. The user's commits also included removing incorrect attributes in `waterline` type definitions. These changes indicate a focus on improving the quality and accuracy of TypeScript typings for various JavaScript libraries and Node.js modules.
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xeroxinteractive/header-v4
Sep 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 release, 267 PRs, 228 pushes in 8 months
reactnextjsheaderfooter
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