Chris Henden
Senior Product Manager at BBC
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Henden is a Senior Product Manager at the BBC with 12 years of experience building large-scale, user-facing products that sit at the intersection of maps, location services, personalisation and editorial workflows. He led the launch and personalisation of the BBC News app, introduced personalised election alerts in 2024, and embedded experimentation and A/B testing into News app culture while maintaining platform services like Locator through a cloud migration to AWS. His background blends hands-on technical roots (early career as a developer and Perl/Flash engineer) with facilitation and coaching skills, making him adept at aligning engineering, editorial and UX teams across complex change. Based in Cardiff, he combines product strategy with platform-level operational ownership and a knack for making the “invisible glue” between disciplines visible and measurable.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons, Mathematical Science and Computing, First Class, BSc Hons, Mathematical Science and Computing, First Class at The Open UniversityBA (Hons), Interactive Art, BA (Hons), Interactive Art at Newport School of Art and DesignFoundation degree, Fine/Studio Arts, General, Foundation degree, Fine/Studio Arts, General at Winchester School of Art and Design
Github Skills (2)
python9
kubernetes9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
oddnumber/blog-test
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
chrishenden/github-api-explore
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:4 pushes in 4 days
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