Jennifer Shepherd
Senior Software Engineer at Financial Times
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJennifer Shepherd is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with eight years of experience building developer tooling, cloud enablement and reliability platforms at the Financial Times. She progressed from cloud governance and Python-based tooling to platform and product-facing roles, now contributing to FT.com’s developer experience and Spark FT CMS initiatives. With a Makers Academy background and a First Class Mathematics degree from Nottingham, she combines strong engineering fundamentals with practical pedagogy and mentoring skills honed during a prior career in education. Jennifer is comfortable operating across infrastructure, CI/CD and product domains, bridging developer productivity needs with production reliability. Notably, she has a track record of creating internal tooling and intranet solutions that scale learning and onboarding for teams—an aptitude rooted in her teaching and coordination experience. Colleagues describe her as a thoughtful problem-solver who translates complex technical requirements into usable developer-facing systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, First Class Honours at University of NottinghamComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Makers Academy
Github Skills (128)
origami10
documented10
octokit9
expressjs9
octokit-js9
command-line-tool9
counter9
reserved9
sdk8
twitter8
javascript8
elasticsearch-cluster8
exploratory8
react8
fastly8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jenniferemshepherd/CV
Dec 2017 - Jun 2025
Contributions:51 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
templatecv-template
jenniferemshepherd/strength-bnb
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:21 PRs, 35 pushes, 15 branches in 28 days
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