Sophie Koonin
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSophie Koonin is a software developer with 11 years' experience combining strong academic credentials—a First in Linguistics and an MSc with Distinction in Computer Science—with practical engineering at the John Lewis Partnership Ventures team. She blends backend web development skills (including contributions to Monzo’s well-regarded real-time incident response tool) with clear communication and teaching strengths developed during CELTA training and classroom experience. Comfortable working under pressure, Sophie has been recognized for leadership and organization in roles from venue supervision to student representation, and she helps run a volunteer women's choir where she also manages the website and event coordination. Her background in language analysis gives her an edge in designing clear APIs and documentation, and she enjoys making pragmatic improvements that reduce friction in production systems.
11 years of coding experience
A level, English Language (A), A level, English Language (A) at The Henley CollegeA-levels, German (A), Sociology (A), A-levels, German (A), Sociology (A) at Kendrick SchoolBachelor of Arts (BA), Linguistics, First Class, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Linguistics, First Class at University of ManchesterMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Distinction, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Distinction at Birkbeck, University of London
English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (6)
incident-response10
python10
django10
testing9
slack8
github4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
monzo/response
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Monzo's real-time incident response and reporting tool ⚡️
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 10 commits, 4 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Sophie primarily focused on modifying and refining the data model and serializers within the response application. Their work involved changing primary keys from "pk" to "id" across several models, and updating tests to accommodate the field name changes. They also fixed an issue in the Slack integration by sending correct metadata. Additionally, the user made a minor version bump to the project.
incident-managementincident-responsereportingreporting-toolslack-bot
sophiekoonin/1999stylewebsite
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:35 commits, 19 pushes in 2 months
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