Leaf Rogers

101 Ways (consultancy)

Co-built an internal tool for Abcam’s customer support, to replace their aging order management tool.

• Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, React, XState, Tailwind, GraphQL, Postgres, Docker, AWS: Lambda, S3, Dynamo, Aurora
• Reduced time to find a customer’s order by 85% (from 1 min to < 10 secs)
• Streamlined order management workflow from 17 screens to just 1

Financial Times: Internal Products

• Stack: Node.js, Express, React, MobX, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, GraphQL/RESTful APIs
• Led and contributed to a team that managed dozens of high-traffic, modern JS and TS microservices
• Led, contributed to, and launched a new front-end React tool for FT journalists to author newsletters
• Added new GraphQL endpoints and integrations to an existing GraphQL API
• Designed and implemented new fast, scalable, and highly available RESTful APIs to facilitate new features
• Modernised and built resilience of numerous RESTful APIs that sent ~10m news emails per week to customers
• Reduced technical cost of the email platform by an order of magnitude, while maintaining 3 nines reliability
• Added documentation and improved test coverage (unit, integration, end-to-end) to many legacy apps

• Worked as the lead engineer to ensure GDPR compliance of the FT’s email platform by May 2018
• Set up several AWS integrations to listen for company-wide SAR and deletion requests

Financial Times: Customer Products

• Implemented accessibility fixes and improvements listed from an a11y audit on ft.com
• As a team of three we gained the FT’s first web accessibility accreditation

• Stack: Node.js, Express, RxJS, Neo4j, AWS: API Gateway, Kinesis, Lambda
• Developed & updated UI styles with semantic HTML and modern CSS
• Maintained and improved a progressively enhanced UI
• Co-designed and co-implemented a new email pipeline for customers
• Team received a paid internal award for a double-digit boost in user engagement

• Developed and shipped the current iteration of ft.com, together with teammates
• Replaced the old and slow-to-ship site with microservices that shipped dozens of times per day

• Lead front-end developer for a prototype English language-learning web app
• Developed several sections, co-designed new platform API, led style-guide/template development
• Used semantic HTML, SCSS/CSS animations, AngularJS, plain JS, gulp, SVG icons, Photoshop, Illustrator

• Developed several parts of an interactive video site for Chanel, using HTML, CSS animations, JS

• Bug-fixed and tweaked a huge web app built with Backbone, working client-side at Google’s offices

AKQA Berlin

• Developed and maintained the JS framework for Ovi Maps on the web, in a team of six
• Implemented user stories, new UI locales, bug-fixing, closely liaising with UX and visual designers
• Integrated the new Nokia Maps API into the framework as part of a major release

BD Network

• Built campaign sites in HTML, CSS, JS; mentored junior developers; advocated web standards internally