Jessica Leach
Senior Software Engineer at BBC
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJessica Leach is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 11 years’ experience building user-focused web applications using JavaScript, React, Ruby and TypeScript. She has progressed through product and learning-tech roles at organizations such as FutureLearn and BBC, where she now works on front-end engineering and delivery at scale. An active open-source contributor, she has enhanced the WorldBrain/Memex browser extension—improving UI, search and popup UX—demonstrating a strong eye for usable interfaces. Her background in animation, design and educational technology gives her a rare blend of visual design sensibility and engineering rigor, helping teams ship polished, accessible products.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MA Communication Design Graphic Design Animation, MA Communication Design Graphic Design Animation at Norwich University of the ArtsDiploma Image Production Animation Video Editing, Diploma Image Production Animation Video Editing at University of the Arts LondonBSc hons Biomedical Science, BSc hons Biomedical Science at King's College London
Github Skills (8)
css10
google-chrome-extension10
webextension10
javascript10
user-interface10
chrome-extension10
browser-extension10
html9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
WorldBrain/Memex
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Browser extension to curate, annotate, and discuss the most valuable content and ideas on the web. As individuals, teams and communities.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 9 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Jessica primarily contributed to the front-end development of the browser extension, focusing on the user interface. Their work involved adding a dropdown menu, incorporating material icons, and modifying the search bar. They also updated the popup.css and popup.html files, changing the layout, styling, and functionality of the popup interface.
web-extensionannotationsfull-text-searchnote-takingbrowser
JessicaML/ScienceMotions-rails
Dec 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:419 commits, 206 PRs, 427 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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