Dominik Lander
Client Side Developer at The Guardian
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDominik Lander is a client-side developer with 11 years of experience building performant, maintainable front-end systems across financial services, specialist media and e-commerce. Currently at The Guardian, he focuses on JavaScript and TypeScript improvements for a high-traffic news site, contributing front-end fixes, modern fetch migrations and Cypress test tooling to the prominent guardian/frontend repo. He has a strong practical grounding in React/Next.js, GraphQL and component-driven design from roles at Avant Arte, CarGurus and Haymarket, and a track record of shipping both greenfield products and legacy migrations. Known for attention to quality and pragmatic engineering—“make it work, make it right, make it fast”—he also automates operational tasks (AWS CloudFormation, Lambda) to reduce toil. Based in Stony Stratford, he pairs a mathematics background with hands-on open-source contributions and a knack for turning design files into resilient, production-ready UI.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Second Class Honours (Upper Division), Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Second Class Honours (Upper Division) at University of Leicester
Github Skills (8)
typescript10
javascript10
cypress10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
testing10
react3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
May 2022 - Jan 2023
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:254 reviews, 128 commits, 222 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Dominik primarily contributed to the front-end of the Guardian DotCom project, focusing on JavaScript and TypeScript. They made changes to the page configuration, updated and created custom Cypress commands, and updated the code to use modern fetch requests, and modified the code related to ad display. These changes involved modifying existing files, adding new files for testing, and fixing existing issues.
productionguardian
guardian/commercial-canaries
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
AWS Synthetic Canaries that monitor ads on the Guardian website
Contributions:19 reviews, 91 commits, 34 PRs in 5 months
monitoradsguardiansyntheticaws
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