Russell Wind
Senior Software Engineer at Financial Times
Southend-on-Sea, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRussell Wind is a senior full-stack engineer with eight years of professional experience and a background in education, now building products at the Financial Times after senior engineering roles at MVF and Housekeep. He specializes in React, Redux and Django, delivering pragmatic, well-tested web applications while valuing hard work and a growth mindset. His transition from a decade as a mathematics coordinator into software development via Makers’ bootcamp gives him uncommon strengths in mentoring, curriculum-style problem decomposition and clear technical communication. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, he focuses on shipping customer-facing features rapidly without sacrificing maintainability. Based in Southend-on-Sea, he blends analytical rigor from a BSc in Mathematics with hands-on engineering discipline to turn complex requirements into practical solutions.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development Bootcamp, Software Development Bootcamp at MakersPost Graduate Certificate in Education: Mathematics, Post Graduate Certificate in Education: Mathematics at Canterbury Christ Church UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at University of Kent
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Github Skills (16)
explore9
twilio9
twitter9
rebuild8
fmi8
instagram7
react7
css7
django-blog7
nodejs7
javascript6
cli5
django4
python3
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Stegosauruss/acebook-fantastic-four
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Template for the AceBook project
Contributions:69 commits, 9 pushes in 13 days
template
Fentonhaslam/MakersBnB
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Group project 1
Contributions:14 PRs, 25 pushes, 10 branches in 3 days
javaproject-1
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