Tom Howland
Senior Engineer at Habito
Stratford-on-Avon, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Howland is a senior full-stack engineer with eight years of professional experience and a master's in physics from the University of Manchester, who moved from scientific Monte Carlo simulations into building scalable web applications. He has shipped production systems across fast-moving UK startups and scale-ups—most recently at Habito—bridging backend robustness and thoughtful UX. Comfortable across the stack, Tom brings a problem-solving mindset rooted in physics and a track record of stepping into senior roles to deliver reliable features quickly. He balances technical craft with emergent leadership, mentoring peers while helping teams adopt modern practices. Outside work he’s a musician, vinyl collector and greyhound dad, traits that reflect a creative attention to detail and patience under pressure. Open to new challenges, he’s particularly drawn to roles that combine hands-on engineering with growing team leadership.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Physics, Master's degree Physics at The University of Manchester
English
Stackoverflow
21reputation
164reached
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Github Skills (26)
filtering8
sorting8
grid8
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reanimated7
pagination7
bottom7
react7
datagrid6
vue6
typescript6
javascript6
electron6
grouping5
svelte5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
THowland1/heardlify
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:178 commits, 137 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
THowland1/you-found
Jun 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:65 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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