Paul Brown
Head Of Engineering at The Guardian
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Brown is a seasoned Head of Engineering with a decade of experience leading high-performing web and reader-revenue engineering teams at The Guardian. He combines hands-on front-end development expertise—contributing to high-profile projects like the Guardian DotCom and Stripe/payment integrations—with strategic leadership of Conversion, Retention, Engine, and Marketing Tools teams. His career traces scalable product and platform work across media and betting industries, from architecting APIs and application security at Elbi to scaling Betfair’s Exchange and sportsbook systems. Based in London, he blends a developer’s attention to detail with a pragmatic manager’s focus on measurable impact, and brings a personal enthusiasm for science, nature and the evolving web to product-driven engineering.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Nottingham
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
front-end-development10
ab-testing10
abtest10
html9
css8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Feb 2016 - Nov 2020
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 41 commits, 32 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the repository, specifically related to the Guardian's frontend. The commits include changes to the Stripe integration, modifying the handling of the public key. Furthermore, the user worked on A/B test copy updates, modifying the contributions banner. The user also updated email templates.
productionguardian
guardian/digital-subscription-authorisation
Mar 2018 - Oct 2023
Digital subscription trial period authorisation
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
authorizationproduction
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