Ioanna Kokkini
Software Engineer at The Guardian
Greenwich, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIoanna Kokkini is a software engineer with nine years' experience building user-focused web applications, currently contributing to The Guardian's frontend teams from Greenwich. She combines a humanities background and two master's degrees—including an MSc in Computer Science from UCL—to bridge product, content and engineering perspectives. At The Guardian she has worked on liveblogging features and rendering logic for DCR vs legacy frontend, showing strength in pragmatic front-end decision-making and user-testing. Prior roles at Opayo and ThoughtWorks reinforced her full-stack discipline and experience with production-grade code and payments-related systems. Her early career in journalism, publishing and teaching gives her a knack for clear communication, content-aware UX and attention to editorial detail. Colleagues describe her as a curious engineer who thrives where content, design and robust front-end engineering meet.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Communication, Media and Culture, Bachelor's degree, Communication, Media and Culture at Panteion University of Social and Political SciencesMaster's degree, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Master's degree, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at University of WarwickUniversity College London
Greek, English, French
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Github Skills (6)
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scala10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:445 reviews, 258 commits, 350 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ioanna primarily worked on the frontend of a liveblogging platform. Their contributions involved implementing logic for deciding whether to use DCR or the frontend for rendering liveblogs, which included handling force DCR parameters and user testing. The user also fixed a typo and formatting issues in the code. Furthermore, they added features related to adding the Winter Olympics in the sport navbar and also addressed some styling fixes related to a full-width interactive.
productionguardian
ioannakok/Beautiful-algorithms
Jul 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:60 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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