Oliver Barnwell
Senior Software Engineer at Financial Times
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOliver Barnwell is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of full‑stack experience across news, finance and agency environments, currently building products at the Financial Times. Equally comfortable with front- and back-end stacks, he has delivered React and TypeScript UIs, C# backends, design systems and CI-driven workflows that speed iteration and improve consistency. A pragmatic, language-agnostic engineer, he prioritises collaborative, ego-free teamwork and routinely questions the status quo to ship better outcomes. Outside work he contributes to practical open projects like the Great British Public Toilet Map, reflecting a taste for user-focused tools with real-world impact.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science BSc, Computer Science, First Class Honours, Computer Science BSc, Computer Science, First Class Honours at University of ReadingPhysics, Computer Science, Math, English Literature, Physics, Computer Science, Math, English Literature at Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form
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Github Skills (100)
origami10
authentication10
hybrid10
browser10
babel-loader10
api10
crud10
static-site-generator10
open-data10
ts-loader10
open-source10
server10
rendering9
bulma9
javascript9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ob6160/olliethinks.co.uk
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
My personal website
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 years 2 months
reactnextjs
ob6160/daynotes
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:119 commits, 126 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
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