Rebecca Mcginn
Senior Software Engineer at Barclays
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRebecca Mcginn is a Senior Software Engineer based in Glasgow with six years’ experience building user-focused web applications and shipping front-end features at scale. She has made notable open-source contributions to the BBC’s Simorgh project, improving accessibility, lazy loading, and topic layouts for high-traffic news sites. Her career spans roles at the BBC, Tesco Bank and now Barclays, where she brings practical product-minded engineering to large, regulated environments. Rebecca combines an MSc in Computer Software Engineering with a background in languages (MA Russian and French), a mix that reinforces clear communication across multidisciplinary teams. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic bug fixes and reliable UI integrations that enhance both usability and maintainability.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland Scholarship Polish Language (1 month), Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland Scholarship Polish Language (1 month) at University of Silesia in KatowiceRussian Studies, Russian Studies at Tver State UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering at University of Glasgow
Russian, French, Polish, English
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Github Skills (9)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/simorgh
Jan 2020 - Nov 2022
The BBC's Open Source Web Application. Contributions welcome! Used on some of our biggest websites, e.g.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:313 reviews, 1964 commits, 472 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rebecca's contributions are focused on front-end development, implementing and integrating UI components within the BBC Simorgh web application. Their work includes integrating recent episodes, adding features for the "News" section, improving the layout of topics, and ensuring a smooth user experience, especially through the use of lazy loading. The user also made various bug fixes and accessibility improvements, showing an understanding of building a usable and maintainable web application.
isomorphic-javascriptreactbiggestsingle-page-applicationjavascript
ExcitedBlob/psammead
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
React component library for BBC World Service and more
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
react-componentreactbbcreact-component-libraryreactjs
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