Calum Brookes
Principal Systems Engineer at BBC
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCalum Brookes is a Principal Systems Engineer with nine years' experience leading systems integration and project delivery across BBC Scotland’s broadcast operations. Rising through technical roles from apprentice transmission engineer to principal engineer and project manager, he combines hands-on broadcast transmission expertise with systems-level design and stakeholder-facing project leadership. He holds an MSc in Broadcast Engineering and a background in chemistry, giving him analytical rigour alongside practical field experience in RF and studio infrastructure. Based in Glasgow, Calum is known for translating complex broadcast requirements into reliable, auditable systems and for owning code and tooling improvements shared via his personal GitHub. Notably, his early placements with Arqiva exposed him to large-scale transmitter upgrades and longwave antenna projects, shaping a durable focus on resilient, service-critical systems.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Broadcast Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Broadcast Engineering at The University of SalfordHigh School, High School at Dollar AcademyMSc, Broadcast Engineering, MSc, Broadcast Engineering at Birmingham City UniversityBSc(Hons), Chemistry with Forensic Studies, BSc(Hons), Chemistry with Forensic Studies at University of Glasgow
English, German, python, c++, java
Github Skills (15)
broadcast7
graphics-engine6
broadcasting6
graphic5
video-player5
streaming-video5
video-streaming5
audio4
linux3
video-recording3
windows3
slack3
python1
api1
telnet1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CombinedArmsGaming/CA_Bots
Apr 2017 - Oct 2020
Bots designed to carry out functions on Slack
Contributions:1 release, 12 PRs, 160 pushes in 3 years 6 months
slack
calumbrookes/Calum_Brookes_CV
Feb 2018 - Jan 2026
This CV is mine - included .cls template is deedy_resume.
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years
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