Gideon Goldberg
Lead Developer at Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGideon Goldberg is a Lead Developer based in London with 13 years of experience building reliable, user-facing and back-end systems for major UK public-facing organisations. He has delivered payment integrations, APIs and platform tooling at Government Digital Service and led delivery of in-house grant application systems and modern development practices at the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Gideon’s background spans Scala, Java, Ruby on Rails, Node and AWS, and includes front-end work on high-profile projects such as The Guardian’s DotCom where he implemented media integrations like YouTube atoms. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering and technical leadership, he focuses on pragmatic, testable solutions and incremental improvements that reduce operational risk. He’s equally at home shipping client-side features and shaping APIs, with a knack for turning legacy workflows into maintainable, automated pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Woodhouse CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Broadcasting, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Broadcasting at Falmouth University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
youtube-api10
youtube10
front-end-development10
html9
react8
reactn8
react-r8
css7
maven6
version-control6
google-plus6
adobe-brackets6
sql-server6
docker6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Jan 2013 - Jul 2017
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:420 commits, 230 PRs, 467 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Gideon primarily worked on front-end components for The Guardian DotCom. Their contributions involved removing and modifying code related to analytics tracking, specifically removing `analyticsName` from meta models and JavaScript code. Additionally, they added client-side hooks for YouTube integration and implemented several enhancements, including adding a poster-only template for media atoms and integrating YouTube media atoms into the Facia cards for display on fronts. The user also addressed issues related to rendering and display of media content within the front-end.
productionguardian
communitiesuk/funding-service-design-post-award-docker-runner
May 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:19 reviews, 11 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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