Thomas Hewitt
Principal Developer at William Hill
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThomas Hewitt is a Principal Developer based in Leeds with eight years of hands-on experience building customer-facing betting and retail systems, predominantly using Java and React. At William Hill he designs and implements solutions for self-service betting terminals and led work on the Bingo website during the pandemic using JavaScript, React and TypeScript. He brings a practical full-stack mindset from early-career roles at CGI where he owned a customer relationship subsystem using Java, SQL and a mix of legacy tooling. Known for enjoying the act of putting systems together (and learning from their failures), Tom combines pragmatic engineering with cross-team collaboration and solution architecture. His First Class degree in Computer Science (Games Technology) reflects a strong foundation in software design and problem solving. Outside of work he publishes personal projects on GitHub and a portfolio site, showing a continual focus on craft and experimentation.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science (Games Technology), First Class Honours, BSc (Hons), Computer Science (Games Technology), First Class Honours at Nottingham Trent UniversityA-Levels, GCSE, A-Levels, GCSE at Sir Thomas Wharton Community College
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Github Skills (45)
smartphone10
widgets10
surface-duo10
pacman10
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android10
tablet10
google-play10
csharp10
flying10
unity3d10
githubactions9
dashboard9
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
iamtomhewitt/board-game-intensifier
Nov 2019 - May 2022
Make board games more intense with the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? soundboard.
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 6 months
gamesmillionairesoundboardboard-gamesboard
iamtomhewitt/home-dashboard-recipe-manager
Jan 2020 - Nov 2023
An app for managing recipes and ingredients for my home dashboard.
Contributions:19 releases, 89 PRs, 315 pushes in 3 years 10 months
recipeshome-dashboardjavascriptingredientsautomation
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