Richard Honor
Staff Software Engineer at Utility Warehouse
Salisbury, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Honor is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack, cloud-native systems using React, Node.js, TypeScript, Go, GraphQL and Kubernetes. He has progressed through technical and people-lead roles at Utility Warehouse, combining hands-on development with engineering management and a focus on delivery and platform reliability. An active contributor to DefinitelyTyped, he has improved TypeScript type safety for widely used libraries and added definitions that help other teams avoid runtime errors. Based in Salisbury, UK, Richard brings practical experience across front-end and back-end stacks and a knack for improving developer experience through better types and interfaces.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Maths Computing Geology, High School Maths Computing Geology at Bishop Wordsworth's Grammar SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Exeter
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Github Skills (21)
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typescript10
typescript-definitions10
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type-system10
dts10
dictionary10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
javascript9
open-source9
memo6
react-router6
firebase6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 11 commits, 8 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to improving TypeScript type definitions within the repository. Their work included refactoring code to enhance type safety and creating more robust interfaces for nested objects, particularly within the `seamless-immutable` library. Furthermore, the user added new type definitions for the `tz-offset` and `ping` packages, and made adjustments to the `node-cron` package, including defining the timezone as a string literal and importing the Timezone type. These contributions focused on refining and expanding the type definitions for various libraries to enhance code quality and developer experience.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
RMHonor/student-loan-calculator
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:18 PRs, 105 pushes, 15 branches in 6 months
calculatorpythonloan
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