Phil Hawthorne
Senior Developer at Traffio
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolPhil Hawthorne is a Senior Developer based in Melbourne with 12 years building web applications and product teams across PHP, Node.js, MySQL and modern front-end stacks. He blends hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership, having moved between senior development, product management and head-of-development roles at companies like MyGuestlist, Sprout and Mr Yum. Now at Traffio, he continues to ship backend and containerised solutions while also co-hosting the Home Assistant Podcast, reflecting a long-standing interest in home automation and embedded integrations. His career began with impactful volunteer-focused work—leading the Red Cross Swinfield project after the 2009 bushfires—demonstrating an ability to design real-world systems under pressure. Comfortable from system architecture to CSS, he pairs technical depth with a knack for translating user needs into reliable, production-ready services.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Information Technology Website Development, Diploma of Information Technology Website Development at Swinburne University of Technology
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Github Skills (119)
controller10
python10
wave10
automation10
docker-container10
home-assistant10
armv710
mqtt10
hue10
api10
chronograf10
home-automation10
garden10
iot10
sonos10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
myguestlist/swiftmailer
Jan 2017 - Jun 2020
Comprehensive mailing tools for PHP
Contributions:6 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
phpemailcomprehensivemailing
philhawthorne/docker-influxdb-grafana
Nov 2017 - Dec 2022
A Docker container which runs InfluxDB and Grafana ready for persisting data
Contributions:59 commits, 38 PRs, 56 pushes in 5 years 1 month
dockerrunsinfluxdbchronografdocker-container
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