About

John Hewson is a highly skilled Full Stack Software Engineer with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and over 10 years of experience in the industry. He is currently working as a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at a stealth startup, where he is responsible for building complex web applications with simple code. John has previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) at beautiful.ai, where he built real-time web-based presentation software for over 1 million users using React, Node.js, and GCP. He has also worked as a Full Stack Software Engineer and Founder at Inkwell, where he developed a web-based editor for technical documents using TypeScript, Slate.js, React, and Redux. He implemented real-time editing via operational transformation with ottypes over a WebSocket and built search across 3 million+ computer science papers with PySpark, Amazon EMR, and Elastic Search. He created backend APIs in TypeScript on Node.js with GraphQL and Postgres. John's educational background includes a Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh, a Master's Degree in Bioinformatics from the University of Manchester, and a Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering from the University of Manchester. John is proficient in various technologies, including Software Engineering, Web Development, JavaScript, NodeJS, GCP, TypeScript, Search, Elastic Search, Redux, Postgres, and Backend. With his relevant experience of over 10 years, John has developed a deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and has demonstrated his ability to build scalable and high-performance applications.