Elliot Blackburn
Head Of Engineering at YunoJuno
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolElliot Blackburn is a pragmatic engineering leader with 12 years’ experience building and scaling products across AI, live music, and food delivery, now serving as Head of Engineering at YunoJuno. He combines hands-on founding-stage engineering—having taken Sunbeam’s prototype to production—with proven leadership at scale from roles at DICE and Just Eat, where he drove platform migrations, delivery improvements, and multi-million-dollar client outcomes. Elliot is fluent across the full stack and infrastructure (Node.js, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes) and has a track record of establishing engineering standards, secure architectures, and career pathways for junior engineers. He’s equally comfortable shipping core product features and designing organizational processes that reduce cycle time and increase ownership. Colleagues describe him with playful reverence, reflecting a leadership style that’s both approachable and impactful. Based in Bristol, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with large-company delivery experience to help teams grow while keeping systems reliable and cost-efficient.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC Extended National Diploma - IT Practitioner, Computing, BTEC Extended National Diploma - IT Practitioner, Computing at Exeter CollegeBachelor of Science & Computing (BSc), Computing & Game Development, Bachelor of Science & Computing (BSc), Computing & Game Development at University of Plymouth
Github Skills (200)
javascript-client10
statsd10
web-application10
automation10
period10
schema10
act10
github-app10
webscraping10
espn10
keybase10
ghost10
ifttt10
nodejs10
mongodb10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
elliotblackburn/dotfiles
May 2015 - Nov 2024
Contributions:73 pushes, 1 branch, 2 tags in 9 years 7 months
dotfilesholmanzsh
elliotblackburn/mdpdf
Jan 2017 - Jun 2022
Markdown to PDF command line app with support for stylesheets
Contributions:35 releases, 5 reviews, 120 commits in 5 years 6 months
command-line-appmarkdown-to-pdfpdfjavascriptstylesheets
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