Tom Howe
Full Stack Developer at Alitu by The Podcast Host
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Howe is a pragmatic full-stack developer with 12 years of experience building web and voice products used by millions, currently shaping Alitu by The Podcast Host. He brings deep expertise in React, Node.js, TypeScript and voice platforms (Alexa/Google Home), having led a BBC team that shipped the organisation’s early Alexa skills and a voice assistant client. Comfortable switching between hands-on coding, UX design and product decisions, he has repeatedly taken on gaps in teams to ensure delivery and mentor engineers. His background in R&D and prototype-driven development means he excels at turning experiments into polished features and scalable services. Based in Stevenage, he blends a Cambridge engineering education with interests in audio, prototyping and robotics that inform creative technical solutions. Notably, he built a graph-based interactive story tool that directly deployed to voice platforms and contributed to BBC projects reaching tens of thousands of weekly listeners.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Engineering, BA Class 1, MEng Merit, MEng, Engineering, BA Class 1, MEng Merit at University of Cambridge4 A Levels, Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Grade A, 4 A Levels, Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Grade A at Newcastle Royal Grammar School
English, French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (109)
voice-commands10
alexa-voice-service10
integrate10
buildroot9
connected9
sdk9
playback9
audio9
home-assistant9
voice-control9
jekyll9
arduino9
alexa-skills-kit9
voice-assistant9
music8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/interactive-adventure-game-tool
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
starting-pointjavascriptinstantlypointas-code
tomh05/hassio-config
Dec 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 350 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
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