Bertie Blackman
Head Of Engineering at Airtime
High Peak, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBertie Blackman is a Head of Engineering with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating customer-facing platforms in the UK, currently leading engineering at Airtime where mobile-first rewards are being reimagined. He progressed through roles from frontend development to DevOps, security and platform leadership at companies including Sainsbury’s, cinch and Havas, giving him a practical full-stack perspective and strong delivery instincts. Bertie combines product-aware frontend chops with robust operational and security practices, having moved from freelance web design into senior engineering and automation roles. He thrives in fast-growing environments, scaling systems and teams to support millions of users and partnerships with major retailers. Unusually for an engineering leader, his academic background in Italian language and ERASMUS studies suggests strengths in cross-cultural communication and creative problem framing. Based in the High Peak, he brings a pragmatic, multidisciplinary approach to architecting resilient, user-focused reward experiences.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
DEA Università "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti-PescaraBachelor's degree Italian Language and Literature, Bachelor's degree Italian Language and Literature at University of Leeds
English, Italian, German
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
cinch-labs/cloudfront-distribution-action
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
GitHub action to create cloudfront distributions
Contributions:3 reviews, 43 PRs, 88 pushes in 6 months
gcpdistributionscloudfront-distributionscloudcloudfront
covertbert/home-assistant
Feb 2019 - Mar 2022
My Home Assistant configuration
Contributions:223 PRs, 829 pushes, 228 branches in 3 years 1 month
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