Rachel Franklin
Software Engineer at Ballpark
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Franklin is a software engineer based in Belfast with nine years of experience crafting polished front-end experiences using React, TypeScript, GraphQL and modern CSS. Currently at Ballpark and previously at Marvel App and Rapid7, she pairs design-minded prototyping skills with production-grade engineering to improve UI/UX and component architecture. Her open-source contributions include UI-focused improvements to the popular Coding Coach mentor platform, where she refactored components and enhanced visual layout and accessibility. Unusually for a developer, she holds a Criminology degree from Queen’s University Belfast, bringing strong investigative instincts and user-focused research skills to product problems. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic front-end specialist who can translate design intent into maintainable, scalable code.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Criminology, Criminology, 2.1, Criminology, Criminology, 2.1 at Queen's University Belfast
English, Sign languages
Github Skills (8)
css10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
component-design10
react10
html9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Coding-Coach/find-a-mentor
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
The Coding Coach mentors website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Rachel primarily focused on front-end development, making significant UI/UX improvements to the mentor card component. Their work involved refactoring styles, adding new visual elements like location badges and curved footers, and modifying the layout using CSS grid. They also updated the component structure by refactoring divs into separate React components and refactoring inline styles.
coachcssjavascript
sophiefitzpatrick/world-kind
Aug 2019 - Mar 2021
August 2019: Empowering big impact with small actions. Part of @fixathon and @impactmakers_
Contributions:85 commits, 35 PRs, 67 pushes in 1 year 7 months
reactempoweringaugust
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