📍 Plymouth, UK

🌐 Remote

📍 Plymouth, UK

🌐 Remote

Hello, I'm

Hello, I'm
Hola, soy

Sean Hewitson

Senior Software Engineer

Self taught Full-stack developer

7+ years of experience in building scalable web applications and
services using modern technologies.

Projects


📺
#001.

Bixo

Website to track and discover tv shows.

🏆
#002.

LootLink

Competition/Giveaway platform.

Bots


🏆
#001.

LootLink Bot

Discord bot for managing giveaways and competitions.

🎮
#002.

Warzone Bot

Discord bot for Call of Duty Warzone tournaments, utilizing ai.

🎯
#003.

Dart Bot

Discord bot for private dart tournaments and leagues.

Packages


📦
#001.

@odyssoft/zod-mui-forms

React forms with optional auto validation on both CSR and SSR using MUI and Zod.

📦
#002.

@odyssoft/tsorm (unmaintained)

Mongoose style Type-safe ORM/query builder for MySQL, TypeScript & Node.js.

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#003.

@odyssoft/tmdb

The Movie Database (TMDb) API client for Node.js and the browser.

Experience


Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

2024 - Present

Instinct Digital

  • Designed and implemented a bespoke micro-frontend architecture, enabling the business to incrementally rebuild and replace legacy functionality while maintaining uninterrupted access to existing systems.

  • Contributed towards an automatic report generation system that compiles data from multiple sources into comprehensive reports, significantly reducing manual effort and improving accuracy.

Senior Software Engineer

2023 - 2024

Rosearch Education

  • I was the only software engineer on a small team responsible for building and maintaining a suite of educational web applications used by many schools across the country.

  • Reduced overhead costs by migrating legacy applications to modern frameworks and cloud infrastructure, resulting in improved performance and scalability.

Full-Stack Software Engineer

2021 - 2023

Webgains

  • Developed and maintained features for a high-traffic affiliate marketing platform, ensuring scalability and performance.

  • Contributed to outlining a new development standard and architecture for the front-end team, improving the development speed, code quality and maintainability.

  • Created applications and tools to interact with third party APIs, enhancing the platform's capabilities and integrations.

Software Engineer

2020 - 2021

MadeSnappy

  • Worked closely alongside the CEO to develop and maintain a bespoke property management/letting agent platform used by hundreds of landlords and estate agents across the UK.

  • Created the core image editing software the allowed users to upload 3d images and remove sensitive information and beautify weathering aspects of images.

Software Engineer

2019 - 2020

The Range

  • Worked as part of the team who created the new retail merchandising application for The Range. This application was built to replace their legacy system and provide a more efficient and user-friendly experience for both partners and staff.

  • Created automation systems to streamline various process, including generating large reports and Power BI metrics.

  • Designed and created monitoring tools with a live dashboard in order to track the performance and health of various systems.

  • Mentored a trainee developer (no prior coding experience) and helped them grow their skills and knowledge in software development. They have since been promoted through multiple development roles within the company.