Gideon Pyzer
Software Engineer at Genomics England
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGideon Pyzer is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building front-end-first web applications and services from London. He has driven modern React and TypeScript adoption, introduced component-driven development with Storybook, and improved UI performance and test strategies at Huddle before moving to Genomics England. Comfortable across the full stack, he has implemented integration layers between legacy and modern frameworks, built developer tooling and CI improvements, and automated team workflows with serverless Slack bots. A pragmatic advocate for accessibility and measurable product decisions, he has spoken about visual regression testing at FullStackCon and published open-source tooling to support it. Known for mentoring peers and leading front-end architecture sessions, he blends hands-on coding with cross-functional collaboration to ship reliable, user-focused interfaces.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computing Science with Professional Placement, Computer Science, First Class Honours, BSc Computing Science with Professional Placement, Computer Science, First Class Honours at Aston University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
23,300reputation
2.4mreached
299answers
8questions
networking
top-1%
tcp
top-5%
google-chrome
top-1%
debugging
top-5%
http
top-1%
websocket
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Github Skills (148)
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
http10
chromeless10
regression10
automation10
regression-testing10
visual-testing10
nike10
ember10
isolation10
integration-testing10
monitoring10
javascript10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gidztech/jest-puppeteer-docker
Jul 2018 - Nov 2020
Jest preset plugin that allows you to run your Jest tests against a Chromium instance running in Docker
Contributions:8 releases, 92 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 4 months
presetjest-testsjesttestingdocker
gidztech/gideonpyzer.dev
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
My personal website
Contributions:6 PRs, 60 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years
reactnextjs
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