bookahead
Bookahead
Booking platformLess admin. More time for the work that matters. A booking platform for service businesses, bringing appointments, payments, customers, and teams together.
Sean Hewitson / Software Engineer
Plymouth, UK · Working remotely
Thoughtful code.
Useful things.
I’m Sean, a self-taught full-stack engineer.
I turn complex problems into simple, reliable
web applications — from the first idea to production.
Building for the web since 2019Full stack. End to end.
01 / Selected work
Ideas, made real.
Independent projects.
Built with care, used in the real world.
TV tiempo
TV tiempo
Find a show togetherFind your next watch, together. Match on shows you want to watch and discover something you can both get into, with discovery and tracking to keep your favourites close.
03
LootLink
ArchivedA competition and giveaway platform, with a companion Discord bot for managing community giveaways.
A past project, now retired.Beyond the browser
Small tools. Real utility.
zod-mui-forms
React forms with Zod validation and Material UI, on the client and server.
tmdb
A TMDB API client for Node.js and the browser. Also powering TV tiempo.
tsorm
A Mongoose-style, type-safe ORM and query builder for MySQL.
Also in the toolbox
Warzone Bot — AI-assisted tournament tooling.
Dart Bot — private tournaments and leagues.
02 / Experience
The journey
so far.
From retail systems to SaaS products.
Always building, always learning.
2024 — PresentCurrent
Instinct Digital
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
- Designed a bespoke micro-frontend architecture to incrementally replace legacy functionality while keeping existing systems available.
- Contributed to automated report generation, bringing data from multiple sources into comprehensive reports.
2023 — 2024
Rosearch Education
Senior Software Engineer
- Sole software engineer in a small team, building and maintaining educational web applications used by schools across the country.
- Migrated legacy applications to modern frameworks and cloud infrastructure to reduce overhead and improve performance.
2021 — 2023
Webgains
Full-Stack Software Engineer
- Built and maintained features for a high-traffic affiliate marketing platform.
- Helped define front-end architecture and development standards, and built tools integrating third-party APIs.
2020 — 2021
MadeSnappy
Software Engineer
- Worked directly with the CEO on a property management platform used by hundreds of UK landlords and estate agents.
- Built image-editing software for 3D property imagery, including sensitive-information removal and visual improvements.
2019 — 2020
The Range
Software Engineer
- Helped build a retail merchandising application to replace legacy systems for partners and staff.
- Created reporting automation, Power BI metrics, and live system-monitoring dashboards.
- Mentored a trainee developer from their first coding experience into a software development career.
03 / A little about me
Curiosity is
part of the stack.
I’m a self-taught engineer based in Plymouth, working remotely. I enjoy the whole process of building software: understanding the problem, designing the architecture, and getting the details right.
Alongside my professional work, I build my own products and open-source tools. It’s how I explore new ideas and keep learning.
Find me on LinkedInInterfaces
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- React
- Next.js
- Astro
- Angular
- Tailwind CSS
- Material UI
Back end & data
- Node.js
- PHP
- Laravel
- Python
- C# / .NET
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Supabase
- Redis / Upstash
Shipping & quality
- AWS
- Docker
- Git
- Vercel
- Playwright
- Vitest
- Storybook
- Sentry
Integrations
- Stripe
- Resend
- Zod
- TMDB API
- Web Push
- Calendar sync
Have something in mind?