Francesca Hammond

Android Developer at The Guardian

Dartford, England, United Kingdom
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Francesca Hammond is an Android Developer at The Guardian with nine years of experience bridging graphic design and full-stack engineering across editorial and advertising products. She began her career in print and editorial design and transitioned into digital roles, bringing a strong eye for typography, photography and mixed media to user-facing applications. At The Guardian she has shipped frontend and backend changes for the high-profile guardian/frontend repo—implementing ad innovations and comment-refresh behavior—and now focuses on personalisation for the Android platform. Comfortable with JavaScript, TypeScript, Scala, React, Elm and AWS, Francesca is known for meeting strict deadlines with organised, diligent work and collaborative design-team instincts. Her background in graphic design gives her a practical advantage in crafting polished, user-centric interfaces that balance aesthetics with performance.
code8 years of coding experience
job8 years of employment as a software developer
book2.1 BA Graphic Design, 2.1 BA Graphic Design at University for the Creative Arts
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Github Skills (8)

javascript10
front-end-development10
html9
css9
scala6
buildr5
react4
testing4

Programming languages (9)

TypeScriptAstroScalaSCSSJavaScriptElmHTMLThrift

Github contributions (5)

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guardian/frontend

Apr 2018 - Mar 2019

The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
userFull-stack Developer
Contributions:119 commits, 46 PRs, 50 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Francesca primarily contributed to the frontend of the Guardian DotCom repository, implementing new ad sizes and modifying existing ones. Their work involved changes across multiple frontend files including ad size definitions, DFP slot creation, and article-aside advert components. They also implemented a feature to refresh comment ads when "more comments" are loaded. Additionally, the user worked on a few back-end functionalities, such as adding a "paid content" tag and adding a page with TLS warning.
productionguardian
A library to provide define and provide Scala representations of the navigation across theguardian.com and the guardian's cohort of mobile apps
Contributions:3 reviews, 41 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years 4 months
productiongenesis
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Francesca Hammond - Android Developer at The Guardian