Philip Bowles
Semi Retired at Self-employed
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPhilip Bowles is a semi-retired IT professional based in England who now seeks part-time, occasional or one-off remote roles while renovating a farmhouse in France. He brings decades of hands-on technical experience from mainframe programming through modern IoT (Arduino, ESP8266) alongside leadership in project management, digital forensics and internet investigations. His uncommon combination of first-class legal training and frontline law enforcement work (counter-terrorism, financial and hi‑tech crime) informs rigorous evidence handling, expert witness testimony and regulatory-compliance insight. He has designed and delivered training across UK and European authorities, built footprint-free investigative networks, and led IT projects for major financial institutions. Pragmatic and curious, he still prototypes electronics and home automation on GitHub, blending legacy systems knowledge with contemporary embedded development. Open to short-term engagements, he excels at discrete investigative, research or technical tasks that require trust, discretion and broad multidisciplinary experience.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
LLB(hons), Law, First Class, LLB(hons), Law, First Class at London Metropolitan University
English, French
Stackoverflow
25reputation
2kreached
3answers
6questions
Github Skills (81)
firmware10
node-red10
esp3210
webserver10
javascript10
cmsis10
flow-based-programming10
arduino-ide10
platformio10
debugging10
visual-programming10
stm10
ide10
esp826610
async-tcp10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
philbowles/h4plugins
Mar 2020 - Apr 2021
Adds GPIO handling, WiFi, MQTT, Webserver to H4 timer/scheduler. Multi-Platform plugins adding everything needed to create your own multi-function IOT firmware.
Contributions:9 releases, 120 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 1 month
firmwaregpioiotmqttwebserver
philbowles/PangolinMQTT
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
PangolinMQTT - ArduinoIDE client library for ESP8266, ESP32 and STM32-NUCLEO
Contributions:3 releases, 63 commits, 1 PR in 10 months
arduino-ideesp32esp8266stm
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