Robin Watts
Frontend Developer at Charanga Music
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRobin Watts is a Frontend Developer based in Brighton with 15 years of professional experience blending web development, product-facing UI work, and a strong background in music and event production. Currently at Charanga Music, he’s expanding his developer toolkit while applying a musician’s attention to user experience and accessibility. His career uniquely combines front-end engineering with hands-on marketing, event promotion, and content creation—skills honed running his own Drum Safari events and managing social for music labels and festivals. Robin has also contributed to open-source C libraries, improving memory management and performance in color-management code, showing an ability to dive into low-level optimization when needed. Known for pragmatic problem-solving and cross-disciplinary collaboration, he brings both creative instincts and technical rigor to building engaging web experiences.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
RingwoodBA (Hons), Events Management, Brighton, First, BA (Hons), Events Management, Brighton, First at BIMM InstituteRingwood Sixth FormFront End Web Development, Front End Web Development at Treehouse
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Github Skills (13)
c1710
memory-management10
c1110
data-structure7
data-structures7
algorithm7
algorithms7
pdf6
ios6
air-native-extensions6
mupdf6
android6
ghostscript6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mm2/Little-CMS
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
A free, open source, CMM engine. It provides fast transforms between ICC profiles.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Robin primarily contributed to memory management and optimization within the Little CMS library. Their work focused on identifying and fixing memory leaks and allocation issues in several core functions, including those related to tone curves, color lookup tables, and matrix operations. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of the library's internals, including the structure and management of data structures used in color profile transformations. This suggests a focus on improving the library's robustness and efficiency.
icc-profileicccolor-management-systemcolor-managementc
robinwatts/tesseract
May 2020 - Jan 2024
Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)
Contributions:49 pushes, 25 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 9 months
ocr-engineocrtesseract
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