Abigail Mcphillips
Senior Software Developer at CaptionHub
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAbigail Mcphillips is a Senior Software Developer based in London with nine years of experience building full-stack web and mobile applications, currently driving engineering at CaptionHub. She has deep Ruby on Rails and React expertise from four years at Pixie Labs—shipping greenfield apps, APIs and data-heavy frontends—and strengthened platform delivery across the Department for Education. Abigail is comfortable across databases (Postgres, ClickHouse, DynamoDB), testing frameworks and cloud tooling, and has hands-on experience with React Native integration testing through contributions to the open-source Cavy project. Her background in maths and earlier corporate tax roles gives her a pragmatic, analytical approach to estimation, sprint planning and stakeholder communication. She blends careful TDD discipline with a bias for shipping reliable, testable systems that scale.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Developer course, Full Stack Developer course at MakersBachelor of Science (BSc) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Mathematics at University of WarwickSecondary school, Secondary school at Chipping Norton School
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
react-native10
testing10
react10
integration-testing10
automation9
automations9
database6
hybrid-mobile-app6
presignedurl6
amazon-s36
amazon-web-services6
capybara6
aws-sdk6
postgresql6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pixielabs/cavy
Jan 2017 - Oct 2020
An integration test framework for React Native.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 170 commits, 69 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Abigail primarily contributed to the integration test framework for React Native, "Cavy". Their work included updates to documentation, resolving merge conflicts, ensuring default props are set for wrapped components, adding a pause function, and making the timeout for finding components customizable. Furthermore, the user added functionality for clearing `AsyncStorage`, as well as start delay. The user also refined the test runner by refactoring and incorporating a custom reporter to streamline test results.
e2e-testsreactreact-nativetestingjavascript
pixielabs/cavy-cli
Jan 2018 - Sep 2020
Command line interface for Cavy
Contributions:2 reviews, 93 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years 9 months
reactreact-nativetestingjavascriptrust
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