Gemma Leigh
Songwriter at Music Direct
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarGemma Leigh is a London-based songwriter and performing musician with over 12 years of creative experience blending pop-rock, R&B, indie and hip-hop influences. As a seasoned co-writer and guitarist, she composes, arranges and collaborates across styles to craft compelling songs and live performances. Unusually for a career musician, she also has significant front-end development contributions to the GOV.UK design system—adding UI components and accessibility-focused tooling—demonstrating a rare mix of artistic sensibility and technical precision. This dual background informs her songwriting with a strong sense of structure, user-focused storytelling and attention to detail. She continues to write and perform while bringing cross-disciplinary skills to collaborative projects.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (16)
accessibility10
component-development10
css10
html10
system10
javascript10
prototyping10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
nunjucks10
sys10
system-design10
forms10
accessibilityservice9
acessibility9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/govuk-prototype-kit
Mar 2014 - Sep 2017
Rapidly create HTML prototypes of GOV.UK services
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 304 commits, 193 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Gemma primarily contributed to the front-end development of the GOV.UK prototype kit by adding and updating example pages. Their work included implementing new UI components, such as radio buttons, checkboxes, and a task list, while also updating existing examples, like the grid layout and date of birth input. They also updated the layout and breadcrumb components, ensuring consistency with GOV.UK design patterns.
govprototype-kitprototypingprototypesgovernment
alphagov/govuk-frontend
May 2017 - Sep 2017
GOV.UK Frontend contains the code you need to start building a user interface for government platforms and services.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:496 commits, 336 PRs, 417 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Gemma's contributions primarily revolve around building and enhancing the GOV.UK Frontend library. They introduced several new components such as link-back, panel, phase-banner, error-summary, list, input, label, file-upload, details, inset text, and select box. Additionally, they focused on improving the development process, including adding gulp tasks for HTML and accessibility testing, and integrating component-specific macros. These actions suggest a focus on enhancing user interface elements within the GOV.UK design system.
govuser-interfaceweb-appplatformsjavascript
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