Stuart Grimshaw
Principal Software Developer at Northern Horde Ltd
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStuart Grimshaw is a Principal Software Developer with over 17 years of hands-on experience and 20+ years in the industry building scalable, maintainable systems across e-commerce, telecoms, government and logistics. He combines full‑stack expertise in Node.js, TypeScript/React, and PHP frameworks with strong DevOps practices—Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD—and a disciplined TDD approach. Stuart regularly leads squads and coaches organisations through Agile transitions, mentoring teams to ship cleaner, testable code while automating developer workflows. His track record includes PCI‑aware Node middleware, Ministry of Justice NodeJS/CMS work, large legacy PHP migrations to Laravel, and operationalised queue consumers (author of a practical guide on PHP + RabbitMQ). Based in Sheffield, he runs a boutique tooling-and-delivery firm (Digital Mesters), volunteers in football club IT, and balances consultancy with an active role as IT director of a fan community, showing a blend of technical depth and community-minded pragmatism.
17 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
HND Computing, HND Computing at Blackburn College
English
Stackoverflow
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15answers
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Github Skills (200)
python10
automation10
node-red10
docker-container10
home-assistant10
localized10
mqtt10
home-automation10
garden10
iot10
internet-of-things10
asyncio10
privacy10
indoor-positioning10
raspberry-pi10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Stubbs/sublime-vagrant
Jan 2013 - Oct 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 5 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 8 months
sublimesublime-textvagrant
Stubbs/laravel-countries
Sep 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
laravel-countriesisobundlephpiso-3166
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