Lucy Mair's Special Place

Codat

Engineer

June 2021 - Present

I joined Codat as a mid-level front-end engineer and moved up to a senior role after a year. The majority my time here was spent using React and TypeScript.

Highlights include:

• Architecting libraries and apps for front-end to maximise ease of testing and to leverage the TypeScript compiler as much as possible.
• Introducing Cypress testing and showing how to use it for test-driven development. Advocating for the end of snapshot testing. Generally talking about testing too much.
• Fixing webpack issues, mostly related to style loading with micro front ends and content security policies.
• Mentoring colleagues, helping them to upskill and become more confident. I helped a technical writer transition to a junior developer role and mentored two graduate developers.
• Introducing Svelte as an alternative to React when building a library to allow our clients to embed our app into their sites.
• Running an F# programming group for my fellow functional programming fans. We built a virtual coffee break app that integrates with Google calendar and Slack.
• Working with product and design to ensure features were sensibly scoped and designs were complete and feasible before starting work.
• Contributing to our internal component library.

G-Research

Engineer

Sept 2017 - Oct 2020

I joined G-Research's graduate scheme as a full-stack developer to work on apps for monitoring and controlling a trading platform. I primarily worked with C# with ASP.NET and Angular and I was exposed to many other related technologies, such as using Kubernetes to manage our infrastructure, and using ELK stack for structured logging.

Throughout my time, I transitioned to a more front-end role and I took on more user-facing responsibilities, such as organising our app backlogs and scoping out new features. I was a keen member within the UI developer group and often helped other teams with front-end development questions.

Property-Based Testing

I have talked at both NDC Oslo and NDC London in 2023 on the topic of Property-Based Testing. This is a technique that uses unit testing with randomized inputs to test general statements rather than relying on specific examples. You can watch my talk on YouTube and a summary of it can be found on InfoQ.

Graphic Design

Shillington

Sept 2020 - Jun 2020

I completed six months of a part-time course on graphic design at Shillington to get more experience in design, particularly in a digital setting. As part of this course, I was exposed to a wide range of different areas of graphic design, including posters, flyers, websites, and mobile apps. This course used Adobe Creative Cloud (such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign) and Figma.

MSci Systems Biology 2.1

University of Cambridge

2016 - 2017

Systems Biology is an inter-disciplinary subject, looking at how mathematics and computer science can be applied to biological problems, such as DNA sequencing. During this course, I had to collaborate with students from different backgrounds. My fourth year project involved using linear programming to compute elementary flux modes.

BA Computer Science 2.1

University of Cambridge

2013 - 2016

My third year project for my degree involved looking at how information in a language’s interpreter could be used to suggest corrections to syntax errors. In the case of an error, my project would use the interpreter’s rules to suggest corrections, such as inserting a missing parenthesis or colon. My project used python and was aimed at, and tested by, novice programmers.