Jo Paul
Scala Software Developer (Contract) at Cinquecento Consulting Limited
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJo Paul is a senior Scala software engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, high-volume web microservices and APIs, currently contracting at HM Revenue & Customs via Equal Experts. She has a strong background in Scala Play, functional libraries (cats/scalaz), AWS serverless components, and continuous delivery practices, having delivered both greenfield features and legacy integrations for public sector and enterprise e‑commerce platforms. Jo has repeatedly combined hands-on TDD development with mentoring and internal training, producing documentation and workshops to raise team standards. As director of a consulting company and a contract educator at Secure Code Warrior, she blends consulting pragmatism with a focus on secure coding and developer learning. Based in Bristol, she balances a technical career with family life and a clear human touch—describing herself on GitHub as a mother and tea drinker—reflecting strong communication and stakeholder empathy.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, Distinction, MSc, Computer Science, Distinction at Birkbeck, U. of LondonBA, Drama (Theatre, Film & Television Studies), 2:1, BA, Drama (Theatre, Film & Television Studies), 2:1 at University of Bristol
Italian
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Github Skills (27)
http-service10
wrapping10
static-assets10
frontend9
connection-pool8
java8
high-performance7
tax7
jenkins7
mongodb6
nodejs6
android6
jdbc6
jquery6
intellij-idea6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hmrc/play-frontend-govuk
Jul 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:27 reviews, 57 commits, 56 PRs in 1 year 2 months
hmrc/scalatest-accessibility-linter
Aug 2021 - Jun 2024
Contributions:6 reviews, 21 PRs, 42 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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