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Hi, I'm Olimpia!

Software Engineer

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About Me

I am a self-taught software engineer with the you build it, you run it mindset and a passion for front-end development. I have over three years of experience in TypeScript, React, and Redux.

Experience

RVU - Uswitch

Software Engineer

Part of the Broadband switching team.

loveholidays

Software Engineer

Part of the Checkout team focusing on implementing the right features to drive conversion rate.

  • Developing, testing, and releasing meaningful changes prioritising positive customer outcome

  • Investigating and monitoring alerts, errors, and production bugs

  • Taking part in on-call duties to ensure smooth experience for the users

  • Working with data products such as BigQuery to understand the customer impact

  • Providing support to non-technical colleagues by implementing simple features in Sanity, answering queries, and dealing with requests

Elsevier - Mendeley

Software Engineer

Part of the Mendeley Cite team building a referencing tool to help researchers and students with their publications.

  • Participated in user research sessions to understand the user journey, and their pain points, and gather feedback for improvements

  • Successfully tested, modified, and deployed new features in fortnightly releases

  • Established a better understanding of testing within the team as the testability expert and improved existing testing processes. Gave a company-wide presentation advocating the enhanced testing strategy

  • Improved app accessibility by introducing the jest-axe library for screen-readers and participating in workshops and pair programming sessions. Received an award for implementation of accessibility into the main flow of the product

  • Took the initiative to create debugging tools to help efficiently resolve support queries

  • Worked closely with the Microsoft team to discuss their new releases and better understand how it may help Mendeley Cite

Education

University of Westminster

2018 - 2019

Master of Arts in Tourism Management

Certificates

Testing Javascript by Kent C Dodds

Green Belt for TypeScript by Security Journey

Front-End Software Engineering Job Simulation by Skyscanner

Skills

Get in Touch

07725077181

 olimpiapater@gmail.com

 linkedin.com/in/olimpiapater