Jessica Marais
Senior Software Engineer at Sony Music Entertainment
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJessica Marais is a Senior Software Engineer in the UK with six years of industry experience building music- and media-focused platforms, currently leading engineering work at Sony Music Entertainment. An Oxford graduate in Music who retrained as a developer via Makers, she combines rigorous analytical thinking with product-minded pragmatism—valuable in fast-moving content and rights environments. Her career progressed rapidly from associate roles at The Orchard to senior engineering at Sony, evidencing strong delivery and domain expertise in music tech. Prior roles in operations and teaching have given her a customer-centric mindset and clear communication skills for cross-functional collaboration. Notably, she blends a creative background in performance with practical engineering practice, making her adept at translating artistic requirements into reliable software.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Music, Bachelor’s Degree Music at University of OxfordSoftware Developer Course Computer Software Engineering, Software Developer Course Computer Software Engineering at MakersHigh School, High School at Channing SchoolHigh School, High School at Highgate School
English, French
Github Skills (27)
explore9
twilio9
backend8
gunicorn8
fmi8
backend-api8
api7
react7
flask7
rest-api6
css6
javascript6
cli5
frontend5
python5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jessmar94/sportsmatch_api
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Two Week Final Project. Backend API: Python & Flask
Contributions:100 commits, 18 PRs, 63 pushes in 1 month
apipython-flask-apipythonflaskgunicorn
jessmar94/bank_tech_test
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Week 10 Tech Test #1
Contributions:4 PRs, 44 pushes, 3 branches in 22 days
testingtech-test
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