Emma Beynon
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEmma Beynon is a senior software engineer based in Brighton with a decade of experience building reliable back-end systems and shipping production features. At Yoto she combines hands-on development with a commitment to mentoring and empowering women in tech, bringing both technical skill and community focus to her roles. Her open-source contributions include meaningful back-end work on the high-profile alphagov/whitehall project, improving document export, attachment handling, and search/filtering workflows for GOV.UK. Trained originally in international business and French, she brings cross-cultural communication and product-minded thinking to engineering problems. Colleagues value her pragmatic approach to data migrations and refactors, and her knack for turning messy legacy behaviours into predictable, testable systems.
10 years of coding experience
BSc International Business and French, BSc International Business and French at Aston University
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
apidoc9
postgresql9
data-migration9
api9
datagovuk8
web-frontend7
front7
frontend7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Aug 2018 - Apr 2020
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:134 commits, 91 PRs, 235 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Emma primarily contributed to the Whitehall repository by making changes to the back-end code. They focused on improving the functionality of attachments by updating their slugs and modifying the data migration process. The user also worked on refining the export process of news documents to incorporate content IDs for organizations and ensuring document types are passed correctly to Rummager search. They also made changes to support filtering topical event documents and refactoring the document filter.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
emmabeynon/github-trello-poster
Apr 2016 - Oct 2021
A handy tool that automatically posts GitHub pull request links to Trello cards.
Contributions:148 commits, 137 PRs, 116 pushes in 5 years 6 months
pull-requestpostslinkshandyrequest
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