University of Cambridge

Software Engineer at The Guardian

London, England, United Kingdom

I help deliver powerful journalism to hundreds of millions of people.

I work at the heart of our Content API, the source of truth for our mobile and web products, which serves 2 billion requests a month.

I coordinate our microservice architecture, working with Scala and Elasticsearch to deliver speed, search and reliability. I explore issues such as syndication and traffic acquisition, and work closely with other teams to develop new forms of journalistic content and revenue streams.

The Guardian

Software Engineer

Delivered product growth for 3 million+ users, and helped 50,000 Muslims find love along the way. 

Maintained and refactored the API which the mobile products consumed, delivering business logic at speed and scale. Developed features for the CRM tool - a platform for the community team to manage issues and requests through customer support functions (e.g. blocking, approvals, communications, reimbursements). I was also responsible for the company website and blog, which I rebuilt from scratch - adding localisation, accessibility and E2E testing.

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Reskilled in software engineering through a London based not-for-profit course driven by peer-led development. I helped deliver two social impact projects: one was a mobile application to search and filter nearby toilets in London, and the other was a game which taught schoolchildren what they can and can’t recycle.

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