Iris Faraway
Lead Digital Developer at Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Bath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIris Faraway is a Lead Digital Developer with a decade of experience building user-focused web services for the UK public sector from Bath. A pragmatic Ruby on Rails specialist who also works with Node.js, JavaScript and both SQL and NoSQL datastores, she champions clean, well-tested code and multidisciplinary Agile delivery. At DEFRA she leads digital work on open-source services (notably as the main contributor to the waste-carriers-engine Rails project), translating complex policy needs into efficient, user-friendly interfaces. Earlier roles at the University of Bath honed her cross-functional skills in content strategy, user research and stakeholder engagement, giving her a rare blend of technical craft and content-first thinking. Colleagues rely on her for maintaining high code standards, mentoring peers and shipping maintainable solutions that real users enjoy.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), English, Bachelor of Arts (BA), English at Durham University
Github Skills (72)
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testing6
javascript6
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flutter6
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DEFRA/waste-exemptions-engine
Jan 2019 - Sep 2022
Core functionality shared between the waste exemptions front and back office applications
Contributions:75 reviews, 354 PRs, 496 pushes in 3 years 8 months
wasteback-officenodejs
DEFRA/waste-carriers-engine
Nov 2017 - Sep 2022
Core functionality shared between the waste carriers front and back office applications
Contributions:118 reviews, 925 PRs, 1670 pushes in 4 years 10 months
reactcarrierswastewaste-carriersback-office
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