Alistair Gempf
Software Engineering Team Lead at BBC
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlistair Gempf is a Software Engineering Team Lead with six years of progressive experience at the BBC, rising from Graduate Engineer to team leadership while shipping large-scale front-end features. He combines hands-on front-end development—contributing to high-profile open source projects like the BBC's simorgh—with people management and delivery ownership across editorial web platforms. Comfortable translating product needs into tested, styled components, he has a track record of improving navigation, accessibility and UI consistency in production sites. A Cambridge Natural Sciences graduate, he brings analytical rigor and a habit of rooting decisions in data and user impact. Before engineering, he honed quality-focused thinking as a QA tester in the games industry, which informs his emphasis on robust testing and release discipline. Based in Stony Stratford, he blends technical craft with coaching to grow teams that move quickly without compromising stability.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Natural Sciences, Bachelor’s Degree, Natural Sciences at University of CambridgeWatford Grammar School For Boys
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
css8
testing7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/simorgh
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
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:278 commits, 15 PRs, 167 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Alistair primarily worked on updating the codebase for the `bbc/simorgh` repository, which is the BBC's Open Source Web Application. The commits show modifications to various components, including styling, navigation elements, and tests. The user focused on implementing front-end components with changes to test configurations and components such as the radio schedule, and styling.
isomorphic-javascriptreactbiggestsingle-page-applicationjavascript
AlistairGempf/BooleanAlgebra
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 18 days
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