Ho Lok
Software Engineer at BBC
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHo Lok is a software engineer based in London with six years’ experience building high-performance, accessible web experiences at the BBC, where he moved from trainee to senior roles across World Service, News and the Growth team. He specialises in front-end engineering with React and TypeScript, contributing to the BBC’s Simorgh open-source app and shipping design-system components and image-performance optimisations that measurably improved engagement. At the BBC Growth team he led experimentation across multiple products using Optimizely and Piano Analytics, delivering A/B-driven features that doubled clicks on Top Stories in specific cases. Prior roles include prototyping an early fintech app as Acting CTO at KodyPay and AR/AI-focused internships, showing breadth from product prototyping to production-scale web systems. He combines practical optimisation skills with a strong focus on accessibility and localisation, having helped deliver content across 40+ languages. Outside of day-to-day work he maintains a public site (hotinglok.com) and contributes to large open-source projects, demonstrating an appetite for collaborative engineering and continuous improvement.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate IGCSE, International Baccalaureate IGCSE at Whitgift SchoolMEng Electronics & Computer Engineering (with year in industry) Computer Engineering, MEng Electronics & Computer Engineering (with year in industry) Computer Engineering at University of York
English, Chinese, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (10)
testing-library-react10
testing-library10
typescript10
react-testing-library10
javascript10
typescripts10
react-testing10
react10
typescript-types10
nextjs8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/simorgh
Aug 2019 - Aug 2020
The BBC's Open Source Web Application. Contributions welcome! Used on some of our biggest websites, e.g.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 458 commits, 218 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ho primarily contributed to front-end development within the BBC Simorgh project. Their commits involved resolving conflicts and updating components within the React and TypeScript based codebase. The changes include modifications to test files, enhancements to the layout and styles of the existing components and updates to various configuration files. These updates suggest a focus on improving the overall user experience and maintainability of the BBC's web application.
isomorphic-javascriptreactbiggestsingle-page-applicationjavascript
hotinglok/leave_meeting_button
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:3 pushes in 7 days
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