Joseph Abell
Lead Software Engineer at Barclays UK
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoseph Abell is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience building and leading teams on customer-facing financial products, currently overseeing loans and credit card application platforms at Barclays. He has a strong full‑stack JavaScript background honed through senior roles at Tesco Bank, Isotoma, Netsells and Piksel, with a track record of shipping complex React-based applications and CMS integrations. Known for translating product and UX needs into robust, maintainable systems, he combines hands-on coding with people leadership in regulated banking environments. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, he brings a humanities background in English which helps him communicate technical decisions clearly across multidisciplinary stakeholders. An engineer who still prefers shipping features to endless design debates, he focuses on pragmatic solutions that balance velocity, reliability and compliance.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
York CollegeBachelor of Arts (BA) English Language and Literature General (Hons), Bachelor of Arts (BA) English Language and Literature General (Hons) at University of Cumbria
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Github Skills (76)
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raspberry-pi-pico9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
joseph-abell/josephabell
Feb 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:26 PRs, 85 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
gerbilsinspace/soundboard.cool
Apr 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 149 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 6 months
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