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A focused and collaborative fullstack engineer with excellent communication, problem-solving and leadership skills.
With 8 years professional experience spanning CSS to CDNs I have a broad skill set that allows me to understand and resolve complex challenges and deliver on work that I am deeply proud of. Alongside technical best practice I advocate for culture, accessibility, documentation and mentoring in my teams.
Beyond work, I am a runner, a reader, a British Sign Language learner and a former City Lead of Women Who Code Belfast.
Languages:
- Proficient: JavaScript, Typescript, NodeJS, React, HTML & CSS, SASS
- Also used: Python, Ruby, PHP
Tooling:
- Proficient: Webpack, Babel, Express.js, GraphQL, Heroku, Circle CI
- Also used: Splunk, Figma, AWS Lambda, S3, IAM
Databases:
- MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Redis
Testing:
- Jest, Mocha & Chai, Enzyme, Puppeteer
- Part of an expert team reimagining how article content gets served on FT.com using Typescript, GraphQL and unist
- Established a schema and a shared language for describing content on its journey from Editorial through to rendering
- Reduced the number of transformations being applied to content data
- Prioritised monitoring, dashboards and comprehensive logs to assist debugging
- Regularly blogged about and presented our work internally to share progress and gather feedback
- Tech led a rebuild and redesign of the Newsletters portal with company-wide impact
- Planned and prioritised work for a team of mixed-level developers
- Identified and resolved blockers with stakeholders across multiple departments
- Designed short and long term solutions to handle inconsistencies between data sources
- Shaped technical strategy and produced technical designs for proposed projects
- Identified redundant code and created a plan for archiving legacy applications across the department
- Proposed and implemented site-wide security improvements
- Improved documentation for shared developer tools
- Built a flexible, extendable frontend library to manage shared assets, provide bundle-splitting, layouts, core branding and UI components to user-facing applications
- Migrated all user-facing services, collaborating closely with Engineers, Delivery, Editorial and Support teams to mitigate risks
- Defined a new front-end strategy
- Designed and rolled out a new tech test and interviews process to reduce bias in hiring while improving the experience for both candidates and interviewers
- Built UI components for a service monitoring technical assets and serving out-of-hours support
- Supported a cross-departmental, cross-discipline effort to build a new consent management platform and refactor existing systems for GDPR compliance
- Built onboarding artefacts to target and convert new users to the platform
- Prototyped a blended behavioural and content recommendations engine
Achievement Unlocked: Migrating FT.com to Page Kit
A Developer’s Guide to GDPR that won’t make you sweat
Future Leaders: Maggie Allen, Developer
Bootcamp Graduate Makers Academy, April-July 2016
AWS Associate Architect AWS Certification, July 2017
British Sign Language Level 1 Belfast Metropolitan College, 2005-2006
MA, Linguistics Queen's University Belfast, 2011-2012
BA, English Language and Linguistics Queen's University Belfast, 2007-2010
email: [email protected]
github: magsallen