mysociety/fixmystreet
Nov 2024 – Aug 2025
10 Months active
Languages Used
HTMLPerlTXT
Technical Skills
Backend DevelopmentCode RefactoringEmail SystemsForm HandlingFrontend DevelopmentPerl
Victoria Mihell-Hale
PROFILE
Victoria Mihell-hale
Victoria Mihell Hale contributed to mysociety/fixmystreet by delivering user-focused features and robust backend improvements across multiple cobrands. She engineered enhancements for waste management workflows, streamlined email notifications, and improved data consistency, leveraging Perl, HTML, and API integration. Her work included integrating external systems for subscription management, refining form handling, and implementing asynchronous API calls to optimize user experience. Victoria addressed complex requirements such as direct debit processing and cross-system metadata synchronization, ensuring reliable operations and maintainable code. Her approach emphasized thorough testing and code refactoring, resulting in resilient, scalable solutions that improved both frontend usability and backend reliability.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
72%Features
Repository Contributions
54Total
Bugs
9
Commits
54
Features
23
Lines of code
2,858
Activity Months10
Your Network
9 people
Work History
August 2025
6 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered targeted, cobranded UX improvements for Bexley bulky waste workflows and enhanced data classification for missed collections. No explicit major bug fixes recorded this month; focus was on feature delivery, branding consistency, and test coverage.
6 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered targeted, cobranded UX improvements for Bexley bulky waste workflows and enhanced data classification for missed collections. No explicit major bug fixes recorded this month; focus was on feature delivery, branding consistency, and test coverage.
August 2025
July 2025
6 Commits • 3 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focusing on delivered features, fixed bugs, and overall impact.
July 2025
6 Commits • 3 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focusing on delivered features, fixed bugs, and overall impact.
June 2025
3 Commits • 3 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet highlighting key features delivered, major improvements, and business impact. Focused on branding and UX enhancements across Glos City, Aberdeenshire cobrand, and Gloucester City to improve mobile previews, issue triage, and data quality.
3 Commits • 3 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet highlighting key features delivered, major improvements, and business impact. Focused on branding and UX enhancements across Glos City, Aberdeenshire cobrand, and Gloucester City to improve mobile previews, issue triage, and data quality.
June 2025
May 2025
2 Commits • 2 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025: Delivered two Gloucester-specific features in mysociety/fixmystreet that enhance stakeholder awareness and map UX, driving faster issue response and consistent branding. Implementations include a witness-based email notification for Open311 categories and a Gloucester-specific default map zoom (3). Commits: 8a0499a025af2baadd7730610b6319d85364adb5; 4b5dbaf3a7dc50defa8f13bd34adf8dd6efbc225.
May 2025
2 Commits • 2 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025: Delivered two Gloucester-specific features in mysociety/fixmystreet that enhance stakeholder awareness and map UX, driving faster issue response and consistent branding. Implementations include a witness-based email notification for Open311 categories and a Gloucester-specific default map zoom (3). Commits: 8a0499a025af2baadd7730610b6319d85364adb5; 4b5dbaf3a7dc50defa8f13bd34adf8dd6efbc225.
April 2025
5 Commits • 1 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered key features to improve user experience and cross-cobrand reliability, fixed critical data handling issues, and strengthened integration robustness. The work reduced production risks and laid groundwork for smoother Open311 handling and contract flows across cobrand configurations.
5 Commits • 1 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered key features to improve user experience and cross-cobrand reliability, fixed critical data handling issues, and strengthened integration robustness. The work reduced production risks and laid groundwork for smoother Open311 handling and contract flows across cobrand configurations.
April 2025
March 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focusing on Bexley direct debit improvements and associated testing. Delivered three core items in the Bexley service area: automated confirmation of direct debit cancellation reports, robust direct debit date calculation ensuring payments land on the 28th, and an existence-check for Garden Waste direct debit subscriptions with comprehensive test coverage. These changes improve payment reliability, reduce manual follow-up, and enable quicker customer resolution.
March 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focusing on Bexley direct debit improvements and associated testing. Delivered three core items in the Bexley service area: automated confirmation of direct debit cancellation reports, robust direct debit date calculation ensuring payments land on the 28th, and an existence-check for Garden Waste direct debit subscriptions with comprehensive test coverage. These changes improve payment reliability, reduce manual follow-up, and enable quicker customer resolution.
February 2025
7 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet. Focused on delivering features for the Bexley cobrand, improving renewal and communication workflows, strengthening direct debit handling, and enhancing form usability. Highlights include integration work with O311, improved cost calculations and email templates, and robust Agile reporting readiness. Also invested in test coverage to validate new flows and cobrand-specific behavior.
7 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet. Focused on delivering features for the Bexley cobrand, improving renewal and communication workflows, strengthening direct debit handling, and enhancing form usability. Highlights include integration work with O311, improved cost calculations and email templates, and robust Agile reporting readiness. Also invested in test coverage to validate new flows and cobrand-specific behavior.
February 2025
January 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 (2025-01) – Focused on delivering a key policy-critical feature for garden waste management and laying groundwork for streamlined cancellation workflows. Key feature delivered: Garden Waste Subscription Cancellation for Bexley council, with a new cancellation reasons form, integration with Agile to fetch customer and contract details, and updates to the Waste controller and cobranding logic to support the cancellation flow. The work was completed with a single commit: 8d568df86053d6e77230a0ae1219640532e32d0c ([Bexley][WW] Cancel GGW subscription).
January 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 (2025-01) – Focused on delivering a key policy-critical feature for garden waste management and laying groundwork for streamlined cancellation workflows. Key feature delivered: Garden Waste Subscription Cancellation for Bexley council, with a new cancellation reasons form, integration with Agile to fetch customer and contract details, and updates to the Waste controller and cobranding logic to support the cancellation flow. The work was completed with a single commit: 8d568df86053d6e77230a0ae1219640532e32d0c ([Bexley][WW] Cancel GGW subscription).
December 2024
7 Commits • 4 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered a set of user-visible enhancements, data enrichment, and robustness improvements across multiple boroughs and cobrand contexts. Key features delivered include Bexley Waste Service UI updates with a new clinical waste link and standardized terminology ("bin"), metadata synchronization for category and group with propagation to the Alloy system on report updates, extended reports link handling for Kingston and other London boroughs via a generalized is_london_or_royal check, and Bromley cobrand improvements to enable image submissions across all categories. A major bug fix addressed the Open311 updates processing order by confirmation time, with added tests to prevent regressions. Overall, these changes improve UI clarity, data integrity, cross-system consistency, and user-submission capabilities, delivering business value through reduced user errors, more complete reporting, and broader borough coverage.
7 Commits • 4 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered a set of user-visible enhancements, data enrichment, and robustness improvements across multiple boroughs and cobrand contexts. Key features delivered include Bexley Waste Service UI updates with a new clinical waste link and standardized terminology ("bin"), metadata synchronization for category and group with propagation to the Alloy system on report updates, extended reports link handling for Kingston and other London boroughs via a generalized is_london_or_royal check, and Bromley cobrand improvements to enable image submissions across all categories. A major bug fix addressed the Open311 updates processing order by confirmation time, with added tests to prevent regressions. Overall, these changes improve UI clarity, data integrity, cross-system consistency, and user-submission capabilities, delivering business value through reduced user errors, more complete reporting, and broader borough coverage.
December 2024
November 2024
14 Commits • 3 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 focused on delivering user-centric UX improvements for Bexley waste services, strengthening data consistency for legacy packaging assets, and reducing notification noise. End-to-end enhancements to the waste request flow, packaging options, and communications have been deployed to improve user satisfaction, data accuracy, and operational clarity across the FixMyStreet scope.
November 2024
14 Commits • 3 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 focused on delivering user-centric UX improvements for Bexley waste services, strengthening data consistency for legacy packaging assets, and reducing notification noise. End-to-end enhancements to the waste request flow, packaging options, and communications have been deployed to improve user satisfaction, data accuracy, and operational clarity across the FixMyStreet scope.
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Quality Metrics
Correctness92.0%
Maintainability91.2%
Architecture87.4%
Performance88.2%
AI Usage20.0%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
HTMLPerlTXT
Technical Skills
API DevelopmentAPI IntegrationBackend DevelopmentCode RefactoringDate and Time ManipulationEmail IntegrationEmail SystemsEmail TemplatingForm HandlingFront End DevelopmentFront end developmentFront-end DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentFull Stack DevelopmentPerl
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