Olly
Software Engineer
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarOlly is a pragmatic JavaScript/TypeScript software engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack web features from Sheffield. He has contributed to high-profile open-source work on The Guardian’s frontend, improving interactive UI elements and galleries while also integrating backend services like cricket match data. Comfortable spanning front-end and back-end changes, he focuses on maintainable refactors and improving rendering for index and tag pages. Colleagues value his ability to translate product needs into reliable code and to navigate large codebases with incremental, low-risk improvements. A detail-oriented developer, he brings practical experience shipping user-facing enhancements in production at scale.
9 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react9
api8
apim8
html8
back-end-development7
css7
netcore6
express-router6
aws-lambda6
amazon-dynamodb6
nodejs6
amazon-web-services6
visual-studio6
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:252 reviews, 208 commits, 131 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Olly primarily contributed to front-end development, adding features for interactive elements and gallery usability. They also made changes to back-end services to enable features like cricket match data integration, involving modifications to data models and API calls. The contributions also show refactoring of code related to DCR and a focus on updating the rendering of index and tag pages.
productionguardian
OllysCoding/bumpgen
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Automatically generate bumper content for your IPTV service
Contributions:27 PRs, 42 pushes, 29 branches in 2 months
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