Ara Cho
Software Engineer at The Guardian
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAra Cho is a full-stack software engineer at The Guardian with seven years of experience building client-side, server-side and iOS solutions in product-driven teams. With a background in PPE and an MSc from LSE, Ara brings a strong analytical and business-oriented mindset to engineering problems, having transitioned from a five-year business analyst role at UBS into web development after completing a Makers bootcamp. They focus on data-driven features that connect user-facing interfaces to reliable backend services and enjoy turning ambiguous requirements into pragmatic, testable products. Based in Cambridge, Ara blends newsroom-scale constraints with commercial discipline, making them equally comfortable iterating UX and hardening APIs. An early career rooted in finance gives them an uncommon sensitivity to risk, measurement and stakeholder communication for an engineer.
7 years of coding experience
Web Development Bootcamp, Computer Programming, Web Development Bootcamp, Computer Programming at MakersBachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, Politics and Economics at University of WarwickLondon School of Economics and Political Science
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Github Skills (67)
image-management10
javascript10
twitter10
spellchecker10
fmi10
css10
explore10
twilio10
rendering9
notification9
languagetool9
guardian9
react9
android-app9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/football-time-machine
Jun 2024 - Apr 2026
The Football Time Machine allows you to simulate time travel by replaying old football feed data
Contributions:33 reviews, 44 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 10 months
espntime-machinepythonfootballtravel
Acebook-Jaanis/acebook-JAANIS
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
Template for the AceBook project
Contributions:14 PRs, 51 pushes, 11 branches in 12 days
template
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