Edward Litten
Lead Software Engineer at futurice
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEdward Litten is a Lead Software Engineer in the UK with nine years of hands-on full-stack experience and a focus on tech-for-good organisations that improve people's lives. He combines TypeScript-heavy front-end expertise—demonstrated by contributions to The Guardian's prominent guardian/frontend repo—with practical leadership as a tech lead guiding delivery and code quality. Trained in chemistry (UCL MSci) and retrained via Makers Academy, he brings analytical rigor and a pragmatic, bootcamp-honed approach to building maintainable web apps. Edward is comfortable reducing legacy technical debt (e.g., removing old dependencies and migrating code to TypeScript) while mentoring teams to ship user-focused, scalable interfaces.
9 years of coding experience
Web development bootcamp, Web development bootcamp at Makers AcademyA-levels: Computing (A), Chemistry (A), Maths (B), Physics (B); AS: Biology (A), A-levels: Computing (A), Chemistry (A), Maths (B), Physics (B); AS: Biology (A) at The College of Richard CollyerUniversity College London
Github Skills (6)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
frontend10
typescript-types10
react4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 44 commits, 16 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Edward primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the repository, specifically working with TypeScript and JavaScript. Their contributions involved removing dependencies like "qwery" from various modules, including `fill-advert-slots.js` and `paid-containers.ts`, and converting files to TypeScript. The user also made formatting changes and converted the `render-advert.ts` and `Advert.ts` files to TypeScript.
productionguardian
ealitten/jennifer.js
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:29 commits, 13 PRs, 26 pushes in 20 days
makertestingjavascripttest-frameworkscratch
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