Phil Lee
Founding Engineer at Heywa Labs
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Lee is a founding engineer and staff-level technologist with 10 years' experience building high-performance, accessible full-stack JavaScript applications. He has driven web performance and developer best practices through progressive roles at the BBC and Trainline, scaling experiences used by hundreds of millions of monthly visitors. Now at Heywa Labs he combines AI-driven GenUX with polished frontend engineering, pairing React/TypeScript and GraphQL expertise with CI/CD and AWS operability. Known for advocacy in a11y and i18n, he blends pragmatic leadership (team lead experience) with hands-on delivery and test-first disciplines. Based in Stony Stratford, he brings a designer’s sensibility from a Graphics background to craft engaging UIs that ship reliably at scale. An unstated strength is his history of growing internal communities around performance, turning niche optimizations into measurable product wins.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of BrightonGraphics, Graphics at Homewood School and Sixth Form
Github Skills (75)
single-source10
isomorphic-javascript10
javascript10
single-page-application10
browser10
react-component10
single-page10
typescript10
nextjs10
facebook10
region10
react10
treemap9
internationalization9
localization9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pjlee11/Final-Year-Project
Feb 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 9 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 3 months
pjlee11/hello-world-app
Jan 2019 - Oct 2022
Hello world application used an example of how to use the simorgh-renderer
Contributions:14 PRs, 36 pushes, 17 branches in 3 years 9 months
renderer
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