Anna Beddow
Senior Software Engineer at The Guardian
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAnna Beddow is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with nine years of full-stack experience, specialising in React and React Native. She has progressed from full-stack roles to lead developer and now delivers front-end engineering at The Guardian, where she contributed feature work to the high-profile guardian/frontend repo. Comfortable across product-facing UI, component design and refactoring, she pairs strong JavaScript skills with practical UX sensibilities—evident in her work implementing expandable pinned posts and improving interaction patterns. Her background combines formal humanities study with intensive bootcamp training, giving her an unusual strength in communication, content-focused thinking and user-centred design. Known for shipping polished UI features and tests in large codebases, she brings reliability and attention to detail to fast-moving newsroom engineering.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Makers AcademyA levels: A; A; B - English Literature; Law; Economics, A levels: A; A; B - English Literature; Law; Economics at The Ecclesbourne SchoolBachelor’s Degree, English Literature, 2:1, Bachelor’s Degree, English Literature, 2:1 at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (8)
html10
css10
javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
react10
testing9
svg9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:177 reviews, 167 commits, 207 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Anna primarily focused on implementing features related to pinned posts within the frontend of The Guardian DotCom. Their contributions included creating expandable pinned posts, adding and refining UI components, incorporating SVG icons, and integrating functionality to filter and display pinned posts. The user also worked on improving the presentation, styling, and user interaction of these elements, and integrated the new component to the existing model. Additionally, they made various code refactoring and test updates.
productionguardian
guardian/renditions
Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 7 PRs in 6 months
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