The Guardian
I code for The Guardian. I was one of the 2021 software engineering fellowship intake and am currently part of a team redesigning the homepage. I’ve worked with Scala, TypeScript, React, and Amazon Web Services, amongst other things.
Things worked on during my time here include…
Feast
I was part of the ‘Basecamp’ team that got Guardian Feast - a cooking app built around the publication’s huge recipes library - off the ground. My responsibilities revolved around establishing a data model for Guardian recipes and developing a workflow for them to be structured and stored in a centralised database.
The app launched on iOS in March 2024.
Galaxies
An ongoing project is Galaxies (of the Guardian), an org chart that used D3 force directed graphs to represent Product & Engineering as a series of interconnected people, teams, and streams.
Although initially a side hustle Galaxies has been adopted as a go-to internal tool, expanding to cover other departments in the Guardian.
Ophan
Spent a decent stint working on Ophan, the paper’s real-time, in-house content analytics tool.
1821 Mode
As part of the paper’s 200th birthday celebrations I and my fellow fellows made 1821 Mode, a hack day project that styled the website to look like the first edition of the Manchester Guardian.
It spent a glorious week as an easter egg on the homepage and even got a shoutout from Margaret Atwood!