Akash Askoolum
Staff Software Engineer at guardian
Summary
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RockstarAkash Askoolum is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently contributing to The Guardian’s front-end platform. He focuses on improving user experience and media handling—delivering features like configurable video title visibility, smarter preload controls, and refined media presentation across article types. Comfortable shipping production changes on a high-traffic news site, he balances UX sensitivity with pragmatic engineering decisions. His open-source contributions to the well-known guardian/frontend repo show both product-minded front-end skills and an ability to work within large, collaborative codebases. Notably, he blends attention to small UX details with the reliability demands of live publishing systems.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
html10
videojs10
media-playback10
javascript10
front-end-development10
video-player10
playback10
scala9
react3
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Feb 2016 - Feb 2021
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 191 commits, 190 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Akash focused on enhancing the front-end user experience and functionality of the Guardian's frontend. They made changes to improve video playback, including adding the option to hide video titles and controlling how video content is preloaded. Additionally, the user updated the display of video information on atom pages and made adjustments to the display of media elements across different page types. Furthermore, the user addressed the display of content by making updates to the front-end view components.
productionguardian
guardian/elk-kinesis-logger
Apr 2017 - Aug 2018
Sending logs to an ELK stack via an AWS Kinesis stream.
Contributions:33 commits, 17 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 5 months
kinesiselkloggingmiscelk-stack
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