Mfon Essien
Software Engineering Team Lead at BBC
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMfon Essien is a Software Engineering Team Lead based in London with eight years of experience building and shipping production web applications, currently leading engineering efforts at the BBC. She progressed from freelance web developer to senior engineering roles, blending hands-on front-end work with team leadership and delivery ownership. At the BBC she has made notable open-source contributions to the widely used Simorgh project, focusing on UI polish, component refactors, and accessibility-friendly styling updates. Her background in digital product roles at Barclaycard gives her a strong appreciation for customer-focused solutions and cross-functional partnership. Known for removing technical debt and improving component design, she brings a pragmatic, design-aware approach to guiding teams and shipping high-impact features.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Information Technology, BSc (Hons), Information Technology at University of Hertfordshire
Github Skills (8)
typescript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
nextjs9
css9
javascript8
storybook7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/simorgh
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
The BBC's Open Source Web Application. Contributions welcome! Used on some of our biggest websites, e.g.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:173 reviews, 222 commits, 58 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Mfon's contributions primarily involved front-end development tasks within the BBC Simorgh web application. They made several commits focused on styling and UI improvements, specifically updating color schemes and adding new background colors to components like recommendations promos, disclaimers, and article pages. Furthermore, the user removed and refactored components, such as removing isRecommendation logic from the story promo components and related tests, and added the necessary components to the storybook.
isomorphic-javascriptreactbiggestsingle-page-applicationjavascript
mfonofm/twitter-bot
Aug 2018 - Nov 2019
Twitter bot created using Node.js, twit npm, Twitter API and deployed using Heroku
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
apiheroku-deploymentnodejsnpmtwitter-api
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