Boon Low
Senior Software Engineer (Elixir) at BBC
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBoon Low is a Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years building high-volume, event-driven systems and data pipelines, specializing in Elixir/Erlang on the BEAM VM. He combines deep functional-programming expertise with pragmatic engineering practices—clean code, SOLID, refactoring—and a strong background in search, digital libraries and big-data ingestion (Solr/Lucene, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka). Boon has delivered resilient backends for organizations like the BBC, Fresha and SoPost, led architecture shifts to event-driven and reverse-ETL patterns, and engineered geo-aware realtime platforms for NGOs. He pairs backend craftsmanship with user-centred design experience and lean UX, enabling rapid MVPs that win stakeholder buy-in. Unusually for a backend specialist, he’s contributed to open source (Lucene/Solr patches, Elixir libraries and an Elixir Plug PR) and retains a PhD in computer vision, reflecting a long-standing curiosity that informs his work on search, analytics and ML-ready data engineering.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Objective-C iPhone iPad programming, Objective-C iPhone iPad programming at Big Nerd Ranch: iOS BootcampUsability user-centred design user experience, Usability user-centred design user experience at Nielsen Norman Group Usability Week, Berlinagile & ucd faceted search, agile & ucd faceted search at UXFest LondonB.Eng Electronics Engineering, B.Eng Electronics Engineering at University of NottinghamPhD Computer Science: Computer Extraction of Human Faces, PhD Computer Science: Computer Extraction of Human Faces at De Montfort University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (26)
solr-search10
hex10
elixir10
upstream10
solr10
stress-testing10
latency10
solr-client10
simulate9
lastfm9
compose-web9
load-testing9
contract6
mox5
http5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
boonious/hui
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Hui 辉 ("shine" in Chinese) is a Solr client and library for Elixir
Contributions:2 reviews, 371 commits, 44 PRs in 4 years 5 months
elixirsolr-clientelixir-libraryhexhui
findmypast/elsol
Oct 2015 - Jun 2017
An Elixir library for interfacing with Solr
Contributions:29 commits, 7 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 8 months
elixirsolr
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