Will Helliwell
Senior Software Developer at Switchd
Elmbridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Helliwell is a Senior Full-Stack Developer with five years' professional experience currently building products at Switchd, combining pragmatic engineering with commercial awareness honed in retail and small-business ventures. A Cambridge Natural Sciences graduate who retrained at Makers bootcamp, he blends strong technical craft with experience in trading, supplier management and product launch—skills that help him translate business constraints into shipping features. He taught himself web development while running a food blog that now attracts 1,000 monthly visitors and previously founded a local fridge-cake business, giving him hands-on experience in marketing, packaging and operations. Comfortable across the stack, Will is particularly adept at turning ambiguous requirements into practical, user-focused solutions and thriving in fast-moving teams.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bootcamp, Software Development Bootcamp, Bootcamp, Software Development Bootcamp at MakersBachelor’s Degree, Natural Sciences, 2:1, Bachelor’s Degree, Natural Sciences, 2:1 at University of CambridgeRoyal Grammar School, Guildford
English
Github Skills (11)
twitter10
explore10
fmi10
twilio10
react9
javascript9
nodejs9
css9
rebuild8
instagram7
cli5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Will-Helliwell/whisky_tracker
Mar 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:56 commits, 4 PRs, 67 pushes in 1 month
Will-Helliwell/codewars_kata
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:130 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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