Rob Shakespeare
Principal Engineer at Hippo
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Shakespeare is a seasoned software engineering consultant with over a decade of experience delivering full-stack solutions across .NET, TypeScript, mobile and cloud platforms. He has led teams and technical delivery for clients in sectors from renewable energy and EVs to healthcare and construction, consistently improving performance, observability, and CI/CD practices. Equally comfortable shipping backend APIs, mobile apps and infrastructure, he brings hands-on expertise in C#, .NET, React/React Native, AWS and Azure. Rob has a track record of technical leadership—promoted to Principal Engineer at BJSS—and practical improvements such as aligning integration tests with production databases and enhancing logging for queue processing. Based in Nottingham, he pairs deep implementation skills with mentoring, documentation and a pragmatic focus on measurable operational improvements. An early games and visualization background informs his strong product sensibility and attention to developer experience.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Creative Visualisation, Bachelor's Degree Creative Visualisation at Teesside University
Github Skills (32)
nest8
strongly-typed8
elasticsearch-net8
csharp7
maui7
blazor7
dotnet7
elasticsearch7
webassembly6
unique-identifier5
authorization5
python5
expressions4
microservices3
mobile3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
robshakespeare/aoc2022
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Rob Shakespeare's solutions to the Advent of Code 2022 challenges.
Contributions:343 commits, 131 PRs, 98 pushes in 1 month
dotnetpythonblazormauiwebassembly
robshakespeare/aoc2021
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Rob Shakespeare's solutions to the Advent of Code 2021 challenges.
Contributions:22 releases, 129 PRs, 89 pushes in 1 month
pythonshakespeare
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