Will Hawker
Staff Frontend Engineer at Benefex
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Hawker is a Staff Frontend Engineer with 13 years' experience building performant, user-focused web applications and platform services. He currently owns Content-as-a-Service at Benefex, combining deep React and ProseMirror expertise with a practical interest in applying generative AI to streamline content creation and localisation. A patient, detail-oriented engineer, he has led front-end chapters, introduced shared design-driven component libraries, and improved editor performance by diving into ProseMirror internals. As maintainer and major contributor to the popular remirror project, he bridges OSS work and product engineering to deliver rich text editing and theming solutions. Comfortable translating complex technical issues for non-technical stakeholders, he thrives in fast-paced startups and large organisations alike.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science;, BSc (Hons), Computer Science; at University of Birmingham
Github Skills (16)
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ui-design9
front-end-development9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
remirror/remirror
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
ProseMirror toolkit for React 🎉
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 192 reviews, 130 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to enhancing the `remirror/remirror` repository, a ProseMirror toolkit for React. Their work focused on implementing and improving the user interface by adding handlers for events, supporting rendering, and improving the documentation. The user also made a significant contribution to the project by improving the rendering of the components, and adding support for various front-end features like rich text editing and theming.
reactbrowserreact-prosemirrorwysiwygprosemirror
whawker/TweetDeck-Chrome-Trends
Aug 2012 - Aug 2018
Contributions:85 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 6 years
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