Oliver Abrahams
Software Developer at The Guardian
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Abrahams is a software developer with five years' experience building full-stack web applications and digital platforms for clients ranging from startups to major media outlets. Currently at The Guardian, he contributes to the frontend for a high-traffic site, notably improving audio article rendering and enriching podcast and image data models. He has a track record of shipping customer-facing products—wellness platforms, passenger monitoring systems, and payments apps—by combining design-led planning with hands-on engineering. Comfortable across PHP, JavaScript and data-driven frontends, Oliver brings pragmatic problem-solving honed from migration engineering through senior development roles. Trained in physics at the University of Edinburgh, he pairs analytical rigor with a practical focus on reliable, user-focused features.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bsci, Physics, Bsci, Physics at The University of EdinburghFortismere School
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
front-end-development10
scala10
backend9
back-end-development9
audio-processing9
html9
css9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 16 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily focused on enhancing audio-related features within the frontend. They updated the code to handle cases where HTML for audio articles is missing, ensuring proper rendering of audio elements. Further contributions included adding podcast information to tags and adding an image block element, along with adjusting data models to include relevant image information, like thumbnails, demonstrating work on both content display and data management.
productionguardian
oliverabrahams/prometheus-grafana
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Contributions:7 commits, 7 pushes, 1 comment in 1 day
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