David Furey
Senior Engineering Manager at Guardian News & Media
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Furey is a Senior Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience building and operating web-scale systems, currently leading engineering at The Guardian where he blends hands-on work in AWS, Scala and TypeScript with team leadership. His background spans hardware and firmware design to cloud migrations—he led a major migration of a 300GB Postgres-backed commenting platform to AWS and helped run mobile app APIs serving millions of users. Equally comfortable shipping front-end improvements (notably contributions to The Guardian’s frontend for email signup and subscription flows) and architecting backend migrations, he favors pragmatic solutions that balance reliability and user impact. A product-minded technologist with an MEng in Electronic Engineering, he brings unusual depth across electronics, systems and web engineering, and a track record of growing teams and delivering cross-disciplinary projects.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems, First with distinction, MEng, Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems, First with distinction at University of York
Github Skills (4)
html10
front-end-development10
javascript10
web-performance8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
May 2016 - Aug 2022
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 307 commits, 185 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:David primarily worked on the front-end of the Guardian DotCom repository, focusing on modifications to the email signup and subscription components. Their commits involved changes to HTML templates and JavaScript code, specifically targeting the display of recommendations and integrating new features like opt-in messages and the presentation of content recommendations within the email signup process. These changes included integrating the use of different images, and the use of Javascript to display content.
productionguardian
guardian/simple-configuration
Jun 2018 - Jan 2025
A configuration library without any magic
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 years 7 months
configurationconfiguration-managementmagicconfigconfiguration-library
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