Liam Howell

Hey there

I run Howell & Gibbs with Holly Gibbs — a small studio building civic and public-good products like SendTax and Govroll. Before the studio I spent years writing software at places like Guideline. Outside of work, I'm usually cooking or spending time with family.

Find Me

Building

SendTax Tax docs in. Filing-ready out.
Govroll See how your reps actually voted.

Previously

  • Guideline Software Engineer 2023 – 2024

    Backend systems for money movement and 401(k)-backed loans on a financial platform serving thousands of small businesses.

  • Symbiont.io Software Engineer 2017 – 2022

    Smart contracts on a private distributed ledger for private equity, mortgage servicing, and forex. Added migration capability to the BFT consensus layer; published CircleCI orbs used across the org.

  • SeedInvest Software Engineer 2016 – 2017

    Led the rebuild of the application flow founders use to raise capital on the platform.

  • Mobiquity Web Developer 2014 – 2016

    Built a hands-free, voice-controlled recipe site backed by Alexa, plus web work for Fortune 500 clients including CVS and Pfizer.

  • Ferapod Founder & Engineer 2009 – 2014

    First company. Wrote proprietary encryption protocols on top of AES and Diffie–Hellman, and ran the whole stack — product, infrastructure, and contractors.