Helen Soniega
Scala Engineer at Intent HQ | FT1000 fastest growing European business
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHelen Soniega is a Scala engineer with nine years of experience building reliable web services using the Typelevel Scala stack and TypeScript. Currently at Intent HQ after multiple tenures at HMRC, she has hands-on experience across front-end and back-end development, Scrum collaboration, and production-quality testing. Her work on HMRC's email renderer shows attention to user-facing content and dynamic templating for government communications, highlighting an ability to bridge engineering and product needs. Comfortable in remote team workflows and tools like Slack, Jira, and Google Workspace, she contributes to design discussions and larger tickets beyond individual coding tasks. Based in the UK with a Computer Science degree from Northumbria University, she brings pragmatic, service-oriented engineering to regulated and fast-growing environments. Colleagues would describe her as a developer who pairs technical depth in Scala with a knack for clear, user-focused delivery.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Northumbria University
English, Tagalog
Github Skills (4)
html10
email-templates10
scala10
playframework9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hmrc/hmrc-email-renderer
Feb 2017 - Dec 2020
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Helen primarily focused on modifying and enhancing email templates within the `hmrc-email-renderer` repository. Their contributions involved adding and adjusting content within these templates, specifically related to tax credit renewal confirmations. The changes incorporated dynamic content based on parameters like incomplete claims and estimates, along with updates to the layout and wording of the email messages. They also updated the template parameters for previewing the changes.
helensoniega/pie
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
A tutorial on functional Scala, cats effect and fs2
Contributions:2 pushes, 6 branches in 10 months
functional-programmingscala-catsmonad-transformersmonadstagless-final
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