Richard Hawthorn
Co-Founder at Prolific Works
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Hawthorn is a seasoned engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building connected products that blend software, electronics, and design. As Co-Founder of Traintrackr and former CTO/co-founder of Prolific Works, he combines full-stack web platforms with hands-on hardware design and manufacturing oversight. He has led engineering teams, QA, and large-scale production runs, and mentors startups and maker communities—having founded Cambridge Hackspace and supported founders at MassChallenge. Based in the UK, he brings a pragmatic maker’s mindset: solving everyday problems with elegant physical-digital hybrids and a habit of connecting “dumb” things to the internet. Outside of work he’s a photographer and outdoor enthusiast, a detail that informs his product sensibility and visual approach to data-driven art.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Electronics Telecommunications, Bsc Electronics Telecommunications at Oxford Brookes University
Github Skills (18)
captive10
captive-portal10
connection-manager10
esp826610
wifimanager10
portal10
arduino10
wifi10
esp329
arduinojson8
hostname5
arduino-library4
touchscreen4
fallback3
credentials3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Traintrackr/board_files
Jul 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
richardhawthorn/Clock1
Jun 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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