Eamonn Sullivan
Principal Software Engineer at BBC
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEamonn Sullivan is a Principal Software Engineer at the BBC with a decade of experience delivering scalable, newsroom-focused software in London. He uniquely blends journalism-grounded communication skills with technical breadth to build tools that help editors and reporters produce stories more efficiently. His career path—from reporter and editor at Ziff-Davis and Bloomberg to programmer and senior/principal engineer at the BBC—gives him end-to-end insight into the journalism workflow. Based in London and American-born, he understands content providers' needs and translates them into practical, auditable software solutions. With a BA in History from Saint Anselm College, he combines analytical thinking with a storyteller’s sensibility to turn complex requirements into reliable, production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), History, Bachelor of Arts (BA), History at Saint Anselm College
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Github Skills (117)
python10
projectile10
automation10
home-assistant10
mqtt10
emacs-helm10
emacs10
home-automation10
homeassistant10
magit10
iot10
version-control10
asyncio10
privacy10
narrowing10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
eamonnsullivan/svpsouthruislip.org.uk
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Web site for the Saint Vincent de Paul Society at St. Gregory the Great Parish in South Ruislip, UK
Contributions:160 PRs, 129 pushes, 149 branches in 2 years 2 months
bbc/cucumber-slicer
Jul 2018 - Apr 2021
Split cucumber feature files into a separate file for each scenario
Contributions:24 commits, 5 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 9 months
splitscenariocpsseparatefor-each
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