Marjan Kalanaki
Senior Software Developer at The Guardian
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMarjan Kalanaki is a Senior Software Developer based in London with 10 years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native applications across media, retail and energy sectors. Currently at The Guardian she works in a Scrum environment shipping Scala, TypeScript and React features while contributing to both front-end UX and back-end processing for the high-traffic Guardian DotCom. Her background includes server-side engineering on C#, .NET Core and Azure at ASOS, Trainline and RWE, giving her a strong cross-cloud, multi-stack perspective. She holds an MSc in Computer Science from UCL (distinction) and began her career blending sound design and software, which informs her pragmatic attention to user-facing detail and media workflows. Comfortable across the delivery lifecycle, she writes automated tests and CI/CD pipelines and steps into production support when needed. A practical open-source contributor, she has pushed UI and backend enhancements to a prominent public newsroom codebase, demonstrating an ability to improve both performance and user experience.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, BSc in Sound Design Technology, 1st class honours degree, Bachelor's Degree, BSc in Sound Design Technology, 1st class honours degree at University of HertfordshireDiploma in Sound Recording of Music, 90.85%, Diploma in Sound Recording of Music, 90.85% at Tehran Institute of Technology, IranUniversity College London
Persian, English
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Github Skills (13)
scala10
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
javascript8
html8
ui-design7
angularjs-service6
unit-testing6
azure6
azure-web-app-service6
sql6
angularjs-components6
django6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
May 2021 - Jan 2023
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:151 reviews, 136 commits, 104 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Marjan contributed to both front-end and back-end aspects of the Guardian DotCom repository. They made updates to the sport/app/football/controllers/WallchartController.scala file, which indicates back-end work. Additionally, they made changes in the article/app/views/liveblog directory, modifying HTML templates and JavaScript files, pointing to front-end development and UI/UX improvements. They also added new features related to top mention background jobs suggesting work with the backend processing.
productionguardian
guardian/acquisition-health-monitor
Mar 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:5 reviews, 19 PRs, 38 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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