Jordan Lawrence
Software Engineering at Beyond Hospitality Ltd
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Lawrence is a pragmatic software engineering leader with 9 years’ experience building and scaling front-end focused full-stack products and developer tooling, currently contributing to Sanity Studio and shipping features used by content teams worldwide. He combines hands-on TypeScript and React engineering with a DevOps mindset—owning CI/CD, testing architecture, releases and observability—to empower teams to own the full delivery lifecycle. Jordan has led small agile feature teams and guilds, driven testing culture at scale (growing a Jest suite from ~20 to 600+ tests), and shaped product rollouts as acting product owner for real‑time collaborative editors. His open-source contributions to the high-profile sanity-io/sanity repo show a practical focus on UX fixes and studio extensibility, while his extracurricular experience running large technical events demonstrates operational rigor under pressure.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Information and Computer Engineering, Masters, Information and Computer Engineering at University of CambridgePostgraduate Taught Single Module, Machine Learning, Postgraduate Taught Single Module, Machine Learning at University of Stirling
Github Skills (16)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
headlessui9
headless-browser9
headless-cms9
cms9
uid8
testing8
front-end-development8
ui-design8
rails-i18n7
i18n-js7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sanity-io/sanity
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
Sanity Studio – Rapidly configure content workspaces powered by structured content
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 453 reviews, 330 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily contributed to the Sanity Studio codebase, focusing on both front-end and back-end aspects. Their work included bug fixes related to UI components like status buttons, the Portable Text Editor, and read-only boolean inputs. They also implemented new features, such as sheet list options and sheet view column selection. Additionally, the user made minor changes to the studio i18n and configuration aspects.
cmsheadlessreactrealtimesanity-studio
jordanl17/react-forms-test
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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