Robyn Mikaelsen-cunningham

Software Developer

📧 Email | 💻 GitHub | 📍 Manchester, UK

Software developer with 7 years delivering agile-focused, highly-scalable test-driven production code. Passionate about collaborative problem-solving across disciplines, with particular focus on accessibility, sustainability, and clean code practices.

Known for working beyond her role’s boundaries to help teams succeed, consistently delivering high-quality work, and championing knowledge sharing through pair programming and comprehensive documentation.

Experience

MSQ DX

Frontend Developer, March 2022 - December 2025

Fast-paced UK wide digital experience agency, within wider worldwide group.

  • Delivered diverse portfolio spanning traditional luxury brochure sites and e-commerce platforms alongside immersive brand experiences, interactive applications, and AR campaign solutions to drive user engagement and amplify client reach.
  • Took on leadership responsibilities including representing agency at conferences, reviewing and managing developer onboarding, and establishing tech stack standards and coding practices for new projects.
  • Spearheaded accessibility transformation initiative by embedding WCAG 2.2+ compliance into standard project workflows and development practices
  • Drove sustainability frontend standards and devops tooling implementation. Positioning agency as leader in sustainable web development practices.
  • Led feature development for managed clients through collaborative workshops.

ThinkMoney

Professional Developer, February 2021 - February 2022

Foundation Developer, August 2018 - February 2021

Online banking platform. Scaled up full-stack team from 5 to 15 in agile start-up manner within larger company.

  • Increasing onboarding conversion with greenfield delivery of previously outsourced system. Established standards and best practices that supported ongoing development.
  • Led delivery of complex facial recognition and ID verification integration, digitising a mostly postal process and reducing new user validation time from multiple days to seconds.
  • Collaborated across data, marketing and a third party consultancy to deliver an experimentation and tracking api to unlock further optimisation in both onboarding and account teams.
  • Co-designed and delivered professional development bootcamp for junior developers covering TDD, agile, and SOLID principles.
  • Participated in on-call rotation for critical banking systems, ensuring reliability and rapid incident response.

Northcoders

Trainee Developer, February 2018 - July 2018

Intensive 24-week Manchester-based full-stack development bootcamp.

  • Developed programming skills through project-based learning
  • Delivered two end-to-end applications and presented development process at graduation ceremony

Technical Skills

Current Stack: TypeScript, Next, React (hooks, context), CSS/SCSS (BEM), Tailwind, DotNet, Azure Terraform, Webpack, ESBuild, Jest, Kontent CMS, Umbraco CMS, Optimizely CMS, SQL, Figma

Experience With: Vue, Golang, Objective-C, Java, Redux, Gulp, GitLab, OutSystems, Gatsby, AWS, Octopus Deploy, Datadog, Vite

Champion Of: Agile delievery, Acceptance Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development, SOLID Principles, WCAG 2.2+ Accessibility standards, CD/CI utilization, Sustainability as a principle of performance

Education

Bachelor of Music — Popular Music (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Specialised in technology and its role in performance.

A-Level — Mathematics, History, Music Technology