Summary
Ara 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 Makers
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, Politics and Economics at University of Warwick
London School of Economics and Political Science