A Risk-taker, Innovator, & Formula 1 Fan with over 18 years of experience. Currently working at Polywork, based in N. Ireland.
Feb 2023 - Present
Pete Hawkins
Founder
Rubyist
Self-Taught
Dog Dad
Bad Golfer
Formula 1 fan
Software Engineering
Entrepreneur
Bio
An experienced full-stack software engineer and builder of things on the web, exited startup founder and doggy dad to Frankie and Betsy.
Enjoys:
🏎 Formula 1 🏌️♂️ Golf 🕹 Gaming 📸 Photography
Highlights
5
Startups launched
20+
Backend Systems Designed
1
Startup exit
50+
YouTube videos
64.9k+
YouTube views
1.98k+
YouTube subscribers
2.72k+
YouTube likes
Resume
View allAug 2021 - Jan 2023
Rails engineer (contract), Polywork
Feb 2019 - May 2021
Founder (Exited May '21), Payhere
Apr 2014 - Mar 2020
Founder/developer, Alt Labs
Companies I've worked with
Contact Me
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Very excited to have made it to 1,000 subscribers on YouTube! My wife got these balloons as a surprise ☺️
Announcing RapidRuby.com
Shared a post on the best way to use tailwind CSS with Rails now that the cssbundling-rails gem is out. https://dev.to/phawk/the-best-way-to-run-tailwind-css-on-rails-302c
Started to build my side project, Happi in public, literally by recording feature dev and posting youtube videos. Here’s the first one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq6H4UQHUMQ&t=333s