Charlie Abbott
Staff Software Engineer at Warner Bros. Discovery
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCharlie Abbott is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with over 20 years of commercial experience and deep expertise in architecting high-volume streaming media and IPTV platforms. He has led Roku and JavaScript development for major broadcasters and streaming services (HBO, Discovery+, fuboTV, Sky, BBC) and helped deliver work that contributed to a BAFTA-winning BBC iPlayer release. Equally comfortable in hands-on development and client-facing architecture roles, Charlie specialises in Roku BrightScript/SceneGraph, reactive JavaScript patterns and pragmatic Agile delivery. He’s known for optimising legacy apps to run smoothly on older devices and for shaping bespoke, fully customisable TV-platform reference applications. A longtime contractor and company founder, he combines product-focused prototyping instincts with production-grade engineering discipline.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
St. James CollegeChiswick Comprehensive
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
brightscript9
redux9
testing7
javascript7
roku7
react7
state-management7
google-play6
ecmascript6
linter6
mobile6
android6
flux-architecture6
css6
jquery6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
disc7/roku-sdk-2-starter-kit
Jan 2017 - Jun 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 5 months
disc7/bootstrap-react-native
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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