Isabella Lloyd
Software Engineer at Freelance
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIsabella Lloyd is a software engineer at BBC World Service with four years' experience building high-traffic multilingual web experiences visited by 150 million monthly users. She specialises in React, TypeScript and Node.js, contributing front-end improvements and accessibility-focused UI work to the BBC’s open-source Simorgh application. Comfortable working across UX, testing and product teams in agile environments, she also supports CI/CD and AWS monitoring pipelines. A Code Institute alumna with a first-class arts background, Isabella combines visual design sensibilities from her Decorative Arts degree and freelance mural work with pragmatic engineering—bringing a human-centred approach to scalable, accessible interfaces.
4 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Level 5 Diploma, Web Application Development, Distinction, Level 5 Diploma, Web Application Development, Distinction at Code InstituteBachelor’s Degree, Decorative Arts, First Class Honours, Bachelor’s Degree, Decorative Arts, First Class Honours at Nottingham Trent UniversityFoundation Diploma in Art and Design, Industrial and Product Design - Central St. Martins, Distinction, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Industrial and Product Design - Central St. Martins, Distinction at University of the Arts LondonA-Levels, Art, Textiles, French, A*, A*, B, A-Levels, Art, Textiles, French, A*, A*, B at Enfield County School
English, French
Github Skills (12)
accessibility10
bc10
typescript10
typescripts10
emotion10
react10
typescript-types10
javascript9
css9
nextjs9
html8
rt8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/simorgh
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
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:770 reviews, 179 commits, 318 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Isabella primarily contributed to the front-end of the BBC's Simorgh web application. Their work focused on implementing and styling UI components using React, TypeScript, and Emotion, including focus indicator styling for accessibility. They made changes to various components, including those within the legacy psammead and optimo components, and also added ThemeProvider components to storybook files. These changes indicate a focus on improving the user interface and ensuring accessibility standards.
isomorphic-javascriptreactbiggestsingle-page-applicationjavascript
Isabella-Mitchell/fledgling-bird-game
Jun 2022 - May 2024
Second Milestone Project for Code Institute course.
Contributions:2 PRs, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
pythonresponsive-designcssjavascriptcode-institute
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