Redhwan Nacef
Staff Engineer at Insights
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRedhwan Nacef is a Staff Engineer based in Edinburgh with eight years of hands-on experience delivering greenfield projects and driving digital transformation across fintech and SaaS domains. He blends full-stack craftsmanship with technical leadership, progressing from software engineer to principal and now staff roles while mentoring teams and shaping architecture. Skilled in modern React ecosystems, he maintains a public repository of tutorial projects that demonstrate state management patterns, form handling, and media tooling—reflecting a habit of teaching through code. As a content creator and practitioner he translates complex engineering concepts into accessible tutorials, amplifying his impact beyond day-to-day delivery. Comfortable in startup-like environments and larger organisations, he repeatedly brings ideas from concept to production. Colleagues would note his pragmatic approach to problem solving and a consistent drive to document and share practical solutions.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Robert Gordon UniversityAberdeen Grammar School
English, arabic (algerian)
Stackoverflow
53reputation
10kreached
1answer
4questions
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
react10
react-query9
html8
css8
forms7
typescript7
material-ui7
typescript-types7
typescripts7
rust6
csv6
api6
model-view-controller6
java6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
redhwannacef/youtube-tutorials
Mar 2020 - Jul 2022
Repository to hold all supporting work for my YouTube tutorials.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:73 commits, 51 PRs, 114 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Redhwan contributed to the creation of multiple React applications, each demonstrating a different state management technique including React's built-in state, context, Recoil, and Redux. The user added and updated various React projects, including a form tutorial using react-hook-form, an Excalidraw tutorial, a mock service worker tutorial, and a tutorial on how to structure a form. They also worked on implementing a theme-switcher application and the core components for a video-creation tool using Remotion.
supportingyoutube
redhwannacef/msw-when-then
Jul 2020 - Jan 2021
A non-invasive 'when-then' style API for MSW
Contributions:7 releases, 7 reviews, 55 commits in 6 months
apimswtestingjavascriptmocking
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