Rosa Fox
Senior Backend Engineer at Zuno
Dacorum, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRosa Fox is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building resilient Ruby and Rails-based systems for high‑traffic public and commercial services. She’s delivered mission-critical features at the Government Digital Service—leading COVID response teams and GOV.UK AI experiments—and now drives integrations, payment flows and multi-tenant APIs at Zuno, including a Stripe migration and deferred payment architecture. Rosa blends hands-on delivery with people leadership, having line-managed developers, led tech proposals, and mentored through codebar and She Codes Brighton. An active advocate for diversity in tech, she organises workshops and speaks publicly about inclusion and technical topics. Her open-source work includes backend improvements to the prominent alphagov/whitehall repo, contributing presenters and data-syncing logic that shaped GOV.UK content publishing. Outside work she’s a guitarist and runs educational events, reflecting a practical curiosity that informs both product and community initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Digital & Technology Solutions Specialist (Software Engineering) Computer Software Engineering, MSc Digital & Technology Solutions Specialist (Software Engineering) Computer Software Engineering at Northumbria UniversityBachelor's Degree Music Informatics, Bachelor's Degree Music Informatics at University of Sussex
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Github Skills (11)
data-migration10
ruby-rails10
dhall10
wsh10
rails10
api10
wp-api10
hal10
ruby10
testing9
datagovuk8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Nov 2016 - Mar 2020
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 23 commits, 16 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Rosa primarily focused on modifying the Whitehall application, working on various back-end tasks. Their contributions included removing orphaned data related to policies, adding sync checks for statistical data sets and world location news articles, and refactoring the rendering app. They also worked on presenting data to the Publishing API, including refactoring the presentation of existing formats and adding new presenters for World Location News Articles and News Articles, along with adding image captions. The user also made contributions to document exporting.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
alphagov/govuk_ab_testing
Jun 2017 - Mar 2023
Gem to help with A/B testing on the GOV.UK platform
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 1 push in 5 years 10 months
testinggovuk
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