Michael Jacobson
Software Engineer at Guardian News & Media
Enfield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Jacobson is a software engineer with nine years' experience, currently building front-end features for The Guardian in London, where he’s contributed to high-profile work on the guardian/frontend repository such as engagement banners, acquisition components and email-signup flows. He blends hands-on front-end development and refactoring with a collaborative, coaching mindset developed during a prior role as Technical Coach at Makers and an apprenticeship at 8th Light. Based in Enfield, he pairs disciplined engineering with a creative eye as an amateur photographer, which informs his attention to detail in UI and styling. Comfortable working in newsroom-scale production environments, he focuses on shipping maintainable code and improving user engagement through thoughtful UX changes.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Makers AcademyHISTORY, HISTORY at Birkbeck, University of London
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Github Skills (10)
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react10
css9
html9
testing8
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 21 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the `guardian/frontend` repository. Their contributions involved modifying and cleaning up code related to acquisitions, epic reminders, and banner components. They implemented new features such as a survey request in the email signup and articles viewed opt-out functionality in the engagement banner, including styling updates and event listener setup. Furthermore, they removed redundant code and refactored templates.
productionguardian
michaelbjacobson/nomadsinafield
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:130 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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