Leigh-anne Mathieson
Senior Software Engineer at Depop
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLeigh-anne Mathieson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Glasgow with 11 years of experience building resilient, production-grade web services and front-end experiences. She has led cross-team initiatives at The Guardian—shipping Sign In With Apple, threat modelling for user profiles, and large-scale Elasticsearch rollups—demonstrating a blend of hands-on coding and product-minded engineering. Her recent roles include staff and senior engineering positions at Snowplow and Depop, where she focused on reliability, data-driven features, and improving customer conversion. An active contributor to the Guardian’s frontend, she’s worked on UX-facing features like Twitter cards, recommended content HTML endpoints, and AB tests that span UI and backend. She also brings research-rooted problem solving from early academic work in computational biology, where she co-authored published improvements to RNA structure prediction algorithms. Known for regular demos and running learning groups, she mixes strong technical delivery with mentorship and knowledge-sharing.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
front-end-development10
html9
css9
scala8
git7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Dec 2016 - Jun 2020
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 68 PRs, 95 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Leigh-anne primarily contributed to the frontend of the Guardian DotCom, focusing on implementing and modifying features related to content display and user experience. They worked on updating the Twitter card meta tags for articles, including liveblogs, and added an endpoint to return HTML for recommended content cards. The user also made adjustments to the email templates and implemented AB tests for the sleeve notes and reading time features. These changes span both UI and backend functionalities.
productionguardian
guardian/regression
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:57 commits, 46 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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