Patrick Orrell
Software Engineer at Tesco Technology
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Orrell is a software engineer with 11 years’ experience building full-stack JavaScript and TypeScript applications, currently working on cloud-native projects at Tesco Technology using Docker and Kubernetes. He has a strong consulting background across major UK media and retail brands—The Guardian, Sky, Financial Times and Argos—where he focused on migration and authentication/paywall flows. Patrick’s hands-on contributions include refining identity and account management UX on The Guardian’s high-profile frontend, demonstrating an attention to user journeys and reducing legacy complexity. Comfortable across frontend and backend concerns, he brings practical experience shipping production systems at scale in both agency and in-house environments. Based in London, he blends steady delivery with a knack for simplifying account flows and removing obsolete test and code debt.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Oxford Brookes University
Github Skills (8)
front-end-development10
identity10
scala10
backend9
back-end-development9
javascript9
html8
css7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on updating and refactoring existing code within the `identity` application. Their contributions involved redirecting and updating links related to email preferences and account settings. They also removed obsolete tests and adjusted the profile management tabs to be available only in `manage-frontend`. The user's work demonstrates a focus on user experience and streamlining the user flow of account management.
productionguardian
paddyo/amazingproject
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:15 commits in 1 day
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