Raphael Kabo
Software Engineer at Spruce
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRaphael Kabo is a versatile full stack software engineer based in Cambridge with six years of experience building production web applications and a strong product mindset. He has shipped frontend and full-stack features at organizations including The Guardian—contributing to the high-profile guardian/frontend repo—and worked on web platforms at Darktrace and startups before joining Spruce. Raphael combines hands-on JavaScript/TypeScript front-end work with an academic background (PhD in English Literature) that sharpens his systems-thinking, communication, and ethical lens on technology. Passionate about climate tech, open source, and ethical AI, he has spent years building federated community projects as alternatives to Big Tech and seeks to align engineering with social and planetary impact.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, English Literature, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, English Literature at Birkbeck, University of LondonMaster of Arts - MA, English Literature, Master of Arts - MA, English Literature at King's College London
Github Skills (12)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
react9
user-authentication9
authentication9
testing8
html6
css6
git4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 6 commits, 8 PRs in 8 days
Contributions summary:Raphael primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the `guardian/frontend` repository. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to cookie refresh mechanisms, modifying user authentication flows, and updating tests. The user also made changes related to sign-in gates, adding and modifying experiment test variants. These updates likely involved modifying JavaScript and TypeScript code, reflecting a focus on enhancing user experience and optimizing website functionality.
productionguardian
guardian/hackday-particulers
May 2022 - May 2022
do science thang.
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
reactsciencecoderpython3hackday
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