Sarah Rainbow
Senior Software Engineer at BBC
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Rainbow is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 8 years of experience building full‑stack products and scalable microservices, primarily for the BBC. She has shipped high‑impact journalism and media projects—ranging from globally viewed COVID data visualizations to audio sonification and BBC Sounds backend services—combining React frontends with Java/Scala microservices on AWS. Comfortable across ideation, user testing, and agile delivery, she brings a mix of product-focused prototyping and production engineering. A trained musician with a First Class degree in Creative Music and Sound Technology, she also composes and edits audio and video as a freelancer, which informs her work on media-rich features and accessibility. Notably, she led development on one of the BBC’s most viewed pages and has experience migrating monitoring to CloudWatch, reflecting both user-centred thinking and operational rigor.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Creative Music and Sound Techonology, First Class Honours, Bachelor's degree, Creative Music and Sound Techonology, First Class Honours at Leeds Beckett University
English
Github Skills (17)
final-cut10
transcription8
transcript8
in-progress8
react-component7
xml7
sequence6
audio6
react5
firebase5
firestore5
video-editing5
json5
kaldi4
storybook2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sarahrainbow/rainbow-piano-singalong
Jan 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:22 PRs, 72 pushes, 20 branches in 4 years 10 months
sarahrainbow/Bookworms
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:90 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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