Neil Hawkins
Deputy Technical Director at Cogapp
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Hawkins is a Deputy Technical Director and engineering manager with 11 years’ experience delivering complex digital projects for the cultural sector from Brighton. At Cogapp he progressed from Senior Developer to a leadership role, combining hands-on technical direction with partnership-focused delivery for museums, galleries and public-facing experiences. He blends a background in Computing and Journalism with a pragmatic approach to product and team leadership, making technical decisions that respect storytelling and user experience. Known for guiding cross-disciplinary teams through large, collaborative projects, he balances long-term strategy with day-to-day engineering trade-offs. Quietly, his distinction-level master’s hints at a rare mix of technical rigor and communication skills that helps bridge stakeholders and developers.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computing and Journalism, Distincton, Master’s Degree, Computing and Journalism, Distincton at Goldsmiths, University of London
Github Skills (66)
homebrew9
docker-desktop8
aws-lambda8
azure-functions7
serverless7
aws7
videojs6
lambda6
progress-bar6
pantheon6
spanish6
serverless-framework6
frontend6
js5
keyv5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
HammerMuseum/hammer-datastore
Oct 2023 - Aug 2025
Extract, transform, load mechanism, and API for video content.
Contributions:1 release, 14 reviews, 27 PRs in 1 year 9 months
NHMDenmark/OpenCollections
Nov 2021 - Mar 2024
Collections website for Natural History Museum of Denmark
Contributions:18 reviews, 38 PRs, 71 pushes in 2 years 4 months
pythonnatural-historyjekyllnaturalmuseum
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