Edd Sowden
Product Engineer at incident.io
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEdd Sowden is a Principal Product Engineer with 17 years’ experience building and scaling web platforms across startups and large media organisations from GOV.UK to the Financial Times and Deliveroo. He combines hands-on engineering—rewriting Deliveroo’s Angular frontend into Next.js and contributing front-end improvements to the GOV.UK service design manual—with senior technical leadership, having overseen platform strategy and squads of 50+ engineers. Comfortable in fast-paced, high-growth environments, he has led performance, observability and deployment improvements as well as hiring and interview design to improve diversity. Edd’s background spans front-end architecture, Elixir/Phoenix product development, and live service operations, giving him a rare blend of product sensibility and operational rigor. He’s based in London and has a track record of turning complex, high-stakes launches into smooth, reliable outcomes.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Digital Systems Engineering, BEng Digital Systems Engineering at University of Southampton
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Github Skills (15)
html10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery9
jquery-ui9
ui-design8
safari6
frontend6
php6
dom6
webkit6
regex6
user-agent6
fetch6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/government-service-design-manual
Jan 2013 - Jul 2015
Government Service Design Manual
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Edd focused on updating the front-end of the application by migrating to a new liquid template. They fixed broken page titles by implementing a new liquid template and modifying the page title inclusion. The user also added the media player, integrating it with the new template and incorporating the necessary jQuery UI components for functionality. Furthermore, they updated the footer links and styles to match the static version.
manualgovernmentservice-design
edds/experiments
Jan 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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