Roger Hutchings
Lead Software Engineer at Kraken
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRoger Hutchings is a lead software engineer with 11 years of experience who moved from journalism into web development and now thrives in startup environments. Primarily a front-end specialist, he excels with React, Styled Components, Vite and XState-driven state machines, while also contributing to full-stack architecture, CI/CD and serverless deployments. He’s delivered complex migrations (Angular to React), built no-code content platforms and orchestrated release pipelines at scale, and has led product architecture for data-intensive ML workflows. Comfortable mentoring and running agile teams, Roger blends curiosity from an investigative journalism background with pragmatic engineering—he even discovered a previously-uncatalogued supernova during his time in academia. Based in England, he pairs research-grade collaboration experience from the University of Oxford with hands-on startup execution at firms like Quit Genius and Kraken.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Japanese and Business, BSc Japanese and Business at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddMSc Information Technology, MSc Information Technology at University of Liverpool
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
21reputation
3kreached
8answers
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Github Skills (123)
browser10
transcription10
rebuild10
docker10
nextjs10
react10
javascript9
api9
tidy9
cli-application9
compiler9
testing9
command-line-interface9
ruby9
styled-components9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
1715labs/1715labs-pfe
Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
Modified version of PFE for use with paid crowds
Contributions:6 reviews, 34 PRs, 83 pushes in 1 year 2 months
pfepythonpaidmodified
rogerhutchings/spark
Feb 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:155 pushes, 6 branches, 4 comments in 1 year 7 months
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