Leaf Rogers
Senior Software Engineer at Financial Times
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLeaf Rogers is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building resilient, high-traffic web platforms and internal tools across media and enterprise clients. They have led engineering and management efforts at the Financial Times—shipping a React-based newsletter authoring tool and modernising APIs that supported ~10 million emails per week—and delivered measurable product impact at Crosstide by cutting order lookup time by 85% and collapsing a 17-step workflow into a single screen. Comfortable across the full stack (Node.js, React, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, GraphQL/REST), Leaf blends hands-on coding with technical leadership on JS/TS microservices. Their career shows a consistent focus on shipping practical solutions that improve operational efficiency and user engagement, with an uncommon knack for turning complex legacy workflows into elegant, fast interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Solent University
English, british sign language (bsl), Spanish, German
Github Skills (200)
origami10
expressjs10
exponential10
javascript10
sinon10
ava10
dates10
handlebars10
bootstrapping10
mock-server10
http-mock10
build-server10
tdd10
fetch10
mocking10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Financial-Times/n-teaser-collection
Oct 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:9 releases, 24 PRs, 16 pushes in 10 months
groupslayouts
Financial-Times/next-opt-in-template
Feb 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:46 PRs, 34 pushes, 53 branches in 2 years
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