Rebecca Pearce
Senior Software Developer at Government Digital Service
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRebecca Pearce is a Senior Software Developer with a decade of experience building backend systems for UK public-sector platforms, currently leading development at the Government Digital Service. She has hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails, exemplified by contributions to the high-profile alphagov/whitehall project where she implemented schema and data migrations to enable flexible image display options for government content. Her career progression from junior roles at the Ministry of Justice to senior engineering at GDS reflects strong delivery across regulated, user-facing services. With a background in linguistics from UCL and classroom teaching experience, she brings clear communication and user-centred thinking to technical problem solving. Colleagues rely on her to translate policy-driven requirements into robust, auditable backend solutions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MakersUniversity College London
English, Italian, French, German
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Github Skills (11)
database-migrations10
activerecord10
database-migration10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
postgresql9
web-frontend9
front9
frontend9
html9
javascript8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:221 reviews, 104 commits, 189 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Rebecca focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the Whitehall application. Their contributions included adding database migrations to incorporate new features, such as the `image_display_option` for case studies. They implemented data migrations to populate the new field with existing data and integrated changes within the controller to allow the selection of these image options. This involved modifying the database schema, creating data migration scripts, and updating the application's code to support image display preferences.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
beccapearce/airport-challenge.js
Aug 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
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