Zarino Zappia - Programme Lead, Climate

Zarino Zappia

Programme Lead, Climate

Credenhill, England, United Kingdom

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Zarino Zappia is a product and engineering leader with 15 years’ experience building civic tech that blends design, research and full‑stack development. As Programme Lead for Climate at mySociety he manages a multidisciplinary team delivering data‑driven services that help local authorities respond to climate challenges, while retaining hands‑on skills from frontend UI tweaks to backend fixes. His background in UX research and content design gives him an ability to spot opportunity in complex policy and technical landscapes and translate them into usable, equitable services. An active contributor to the Alaveteli FOI platform, he has improved UI, AJAX workflows and accessibility features that support civic transparency at scale. He combines academic grounding in the social science of the internet with community-focused roles (trustee and board member) and an interest in decentralised, ethical local economies.

15 years of coding experience

9 years of employment as a software developer

MSc, The Social Science of the Internet, MSc, The Social Science of the Internet at Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

King Edward VI Sixth Form, Stourbridge

BA, Media & Communications, BA, Media & Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London

English, French, Serbian, Croatian

Stackoverflow

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Github Skills (7)

html10

css10

javascript10

ruby-on-rails9

rails9

ajax9

ui-design8

Programming languages (16)

CSSG-codeRustHTMLPerlJupyter NotebookTypeScriptShell

Github contributions (5)

mysociety/alaveteli

Jun 2014 - Jan 2021

Provide a Freedom of Information request system for your jurisdiction

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:3 reviews, 93 commits, 42 PRs in 6 years 8 months

Contributions summary:Zarino primarily contributed to the front-end and UI components of the Alaveteli project. They implemented a new 256px logo and refactored the OpenGraph tags into a partial. Additionally, they integrated AJAX to load delivery logs, added styling for the message delivery status, and implemented improvements to the batch request UI, as well as a collapsible correspondence view. Furthermore, the user added JavaScript filtering for snippets.

freedom-of-informationalavetelirequestjurisdictionaccess-to-information

zarino/subscribe-with-feedbin

Nov 2013 - Sep 2016

Contributions:35 commits, 12 pushes, 3 tags in 2 years 10 months

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