Aaron Moore
Senior Software Engineer at BBC News
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Moore is a Senior Software Engineer based in Belfast with eight years’ experience building high-traffic, cloud-native web applications and interactive front-ends. He has driven development of the BBC’s Simorgh World Service renderer and other public-facing BBC properties, delivering scalable Next.js/TypeScript applications that serve hundreds of millions of monthly users across 44 languages. Comfortable across front- and back-end stacks—React, Node, serverless AWS services and databases—he focuses on performance, accessibility and user-centric media experiences. An active contributor to the BBC’s open-source Simorgh project, he has shipped front-end features and media embeds (YouTube, TikTok) that improve global UX. His background spans enterprise infrastructure and .NET APIs as well as networking certification (CCENT), reflecting a pragmatic mix of web engineering and systems know-how.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
ICND1 100-101, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, 986/1000, ICND1 100-101, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, 986/1000 at Cisco CCENTBTEC National Diploma, Media (Moving Image), A, BTEC National Diploma, Media (Moving Image), A at Belfast Metropolitan CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc), Computing and Information Technology, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing and Information Technology, First Class Honours at Queen's University Belfast8 GCSE's Graded A-C (including Maths, English, Science), 8 GCSE's Graded A-C (including Maths, English, Science) at Saintfield High School
English
Github Skills (10)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
html9
css9
typescripts8
typescript8
ampl8
typescript-types8
google-amp8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/simorgh
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
The BBC's Open Source Web Application. Contributions welcome! Used on some of our biggest websites, e.g.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2216 reviews, 813 commits, 1122 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Aaron's commits primarily focused on enhancing the front-end of the BBC Simorgh web application. The contributions involved merging feature branches, fixing issues related to podcast links and media, and making specific updates to existing components. The user demonstrated expertise in React and JavaScript by working on existing code to resolve bugs and by adding new features such as incorporating the "YouTube" and "TikTok" embeds. These changes suggest a focus on improving the user experience by addressing visual elements and media content.
isomorphic-javascriptreactbiggestsingle-page-applicationjavascript
BBCNI/analytics-client
Jun 2018 - Jun 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 6 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years
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