Summary
Andrew Stead is a Senior Software Engineer based in England with five years of professional experience building performant front-ends and resilient back-ends for large organisations, currently at the BBC. He specialises in modern frontend stacks (React, ES6, HTML5/CSS3) while also contributing Node.js/Express services and working with MySQL, SQLite and MongoDB via Sequelize. Comfortable across legacy PHP projects and contemporary JavaScript testing ecosystems (Jest, Mocha, Enzyme), he brings pragmatic full-stack skills honed at Clear Channel and earlier roles building multi-user educational tools. Known for shipping production-ready interfaces in agile teams, he blends hands-on coding with strong version-control discipline (Git, SVN) and a practical focus on testability and maintainability. An understated strength is his track record of evolving long-lived systems—from university-funded tools to high-profile BBC applications—balancing feature delivery with technical stewardship.
4 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Chapel en-le-frith High School
Bsc Hons, Multimedia Computing, Bsc Hons, Multimedia Computing at The Manchester Metropolitan University