Rhys Mills
Senior Software Engineer at The Guardian
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRhys Mills is a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at The Guardian with eight years of experience delivering production web applications across TypeScript/JavaScript, Scala and Python. He progressed internally from digital marketing into engineering, giving him a strong product-first perspective when building user-facing features and analytics. At The Guardian he’s focused on front-end work for high-profile projects like guardian/frontend and the image management system guardian/grid, contributing UI improvements, accessibility-aware components and telemetry such as click tracking and timing metrics. Rhys is comfortable refactoring large codebases and migrating features (for example moving banner previews to URL fragments) to improve maintainability and UX. Based in London, he combines newsroom-facing engineering with a marketer’s mindset for measuring impact and engagement. Colleagues value his pragmatic approach to shipping iterative improvements that balance polish with observability.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree English Literature, Bachelor’s Degree English Literature at University of ExeterThe Judd School
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
css10
front-end-development10
html10
ui-design9
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
react8
web-performance7
php6
cookie6
wordpress6
jquery6
event-handling6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/grid
May 2021 - Dec 2022
The Guardian’s image management system
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 95 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Rhys primarily contributed to the front-end development of the image management system. They added and modified CSS and HTML files to style and structure the user interface, including components related to quotas, download buttons, crop functionality, and date range selection. The user also implemented various visual and interactive elements such as feature switch panel and hover states for buttons. These changes enhanced the user experience and visual appeal of the application.
management-systemproductionguardianimage-management
guardian/frontend
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 71 commits, 37 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Rhys primarily focused on improving the user interface and integrating a Braze banner within the Guardian's frontend. Their contributions involved adding, modifying, and refining the type definitions for the Braze banner's components. They refactored code for better readability and added functionality such as click tracking and timing metrics. Further work included migrating the banner's preview functionality to a URL fragment and updating component versions, showcasing ongoing maintenance and feature improvements.
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