I have now been a Software Engineering Team Lead on the BBC Sounds mobile apps team for 4 years. So what have I learned from this once-daunting, now-familiar role? Leadership does not mean telling people what to do. Mother Goose is holding back here and letting the baby gosling stride confidently ahead Before working at the BBC, I thought a…
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21 Feb 2024
17 Nov 2022
The BBC’s Engineering teams develop and run our digital products at scale — ensuring our digital services are available and accessible to audiences that need them the most, and as as reliable as our broadcast ones. Recent times have tested the resilience of our teams and our services but we’ve delivered at every moment. Overcoming significant technical challenges and enabling…
14 Oct 2022
At the start of the year I took up a job as Head of Delivery for BBC Product Group as part of a new cross discipline leadership team led by our CPO Storm Fagan. It’s my job to help the BBC get the most out of modern digital agile ways of working. Bringing more product thinking to how we work…
21 Sept 2022
How I learned to manipulate JSON data with Pandas on a Jupyter Notebook and deconstruct it to a DataFrame ready for queries. Image by author created from Jupiter photo by NASA and Pandas photo by Pascal Müller on Unsplash A bit of context first I started a self-study path to learn the theoretical fundamentals of Data Science and Machine Learning.…
30 May 2022
Photo by Sen on Unsplash Modern JavaScript websites are the result of complex code bases, and the code base which powers BBC Online is no exception. There are many dependencies and frameworks that we rely upon in order to provide the functionality that our end-users expect, as well as code written in-house to cater to the needs of our website…
30 Mar 2022
BBC Online — A year with serverless Its been a little over a year since I published my last two blog posts, in which I outlined the process we went through to choose the technology for BBC online and the steps we took to optimise serverless for our use. Recently my colleague Graeme has published a blog post on the…
7 Mar 2022
Changing the organisation — to build the technology right. In earlier blog posts, we explored how we moved BBC online to the cloud. This was part of a wider initiative called WebCore, which used a range of serverless technologies to reimagine the BBC website. There were technical challenges we faced integrating WebCore with our architecture , but this initiative has…
23 Feb 2022
That’s a bold statement I know, but let me explain exactly why I believe this is true, and why I’m so passionate about it. The BBC which is celebrating its centenary this year is like no other organisation in the world. Our job is simple, to ensure that it remains just as relevant in the future as it has been…
15 Feb 2022
Much like Sir David Attenborough I was not successful on my first application to the BBC , however I was not dissuaded and applied again! Fortunately, I was successful last year and have joined the BBC as Senior Product Manager — Children’s Apps. CBeebies Playtime Island app icon On my first day all the team were very welcoming and friendly,…
10 Feb 2022
Hackathons, innovation days, codefests — whatever you call them — have been a feature of the tech industry for the last 20 years, and one of the most powerful ideation tools at our disposal. The premise is simple, given a theme or problem space, the hackathon participants must self-organise into teams to explore ideas, write some code, and deliver a…