Barbara Slawinska
Senior Software Developer Tech Lead at Government Digital Service
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBarbara Slawinska is a Senior Software Developer and Tech Lead with 11 years’ experience building and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications for both public and private sectors. Currently leading engineering efforts at the UK Government Digital Service, she has deep back-end expertise demonstrated by contributions to the high-profile alphagov/whitehall repo—adding secure, shareable draft preview functionality and authentication-bypass IDs for content publishing. Her background spans hands-on Rails development at agencies and consultancies, pairing pragmatic engineering with product-focused delivery. Trained originally in philosophy and public relations, she brings a thoughtful, user-centered perspective to complex technical problems and stakeholder communication.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Philosophy, Master's degree, Philosophy at University of Warsaw
English, Swedish, Polish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
activerecord10
testing9
database-migrations9
rspec9
jwt9
unit-test9
database-migration9
minitest9
frontend8
html8
web-frontend8
datagovuk8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:167 reviews, 71 commits, 135 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Barbara primarily focused on adding and modifying features related to content management and publishing. They implemented functionality to generate unique authentication bypass IDs for editions, integrating this into the database schema, models, and presenters. The user also introduced a shareable preview feature, enabling users to preview draft documents via a generated link, and made relevant updates to the UI and testing infrastructure. Furthermore, the user updated the codebase for the design system.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
baisa/travel_app
Sep 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:97 commits, 4 PRs, 81 pushes in 11 months
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