William Robinson
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Thrive
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Robinson is a Senior Full Stack Engineer based in Newcastle upon Tyne with four years of hands-on experience building backend-focused systems using TypeScript, Rust, Python and Lua. He has progressed from application development roles at Accenture to platform engineering at Synanetics and now leads full-stack work at Thrive, bringing practical production experience across startups and consultancies. William pairs a backend-first mindset with Neovim-powered developer ergonomics, often favouring lightweight, composable tooling over heavy frameworks. His academic background in chemical engineering gives him a systems-thinking approach to problem decomposition and performance tuning. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who moves quickly from prototype to reliable service while keeping code quality and developer experience top of mind.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Dulwich College Shanghai PudongBEng Chemical Engineering, BEng Chemical Engineering at Newcastle UniversityNewcastle-under-Lyme School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
docker-compose1
lists1
docker1
compose1
react1
redux1
server-side1
yaml1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
W-E-Robinson/git-hooks
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Current git hooks I'm using.
Contributions:18 PRs, 24 pushes, 19 branches in 2 years 1 month
W-E-Robinson/web-page-word-counter-react-node
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Application for words frequency analysis for a given URL
Contributions:28 PRs, 48 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year 9 months
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