Gemma Hanley
Software Engineering Team Lead at BBC
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGemma Hanley is a software engineering team lead with eight years of tech experience, currently overseeing backend services for the BBC Archive and previously leading teams across News, Voice & AI, and personalization projects. She blends a strong testing and quality assurance background with hands-on leadership, having progressed from functional testing roles at Sky to directing engineering and test teams at the BBC. Gemma has deep experience in contact centre technology, web front-ends, conversational assistants and large-scale data stores, enabling her to bridge product, QA and platform concerns effectively. She is active in diversity and inclusion as co-lead of BBC’s WiSTEM Scotland chapter, working to strengthen support networks and inclusive practices within the organisation. Known for pragmatic problem-solving and cross-functional coordination, Gemma brings both technical rigor and people-focused leadership to complex, production-critical systems. Her early career in accountancy and bookkeeping gives her an unusual fluency with financial and operational detail that helps when aligning engineering work with business priorities.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
St Aloysius CollegeBachelor’s Degree, Accountancy, Second Class, Division 1, Bachelor’s Degree, Accountancy, Second Class, Division 1 at The University of Glasgow
English
Github Skills (8)
single-page10
react9
isomorphic-javascript9
single-page-application9
nextjs8
typescript8
single-source7
javascript7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
bbc/simorgh
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
The BBC's Open Source Web Application. Contributions welcome! Used on some of our biggest websites, e.g.
Contributions:1 commit, 1 push in 1 day
isomorphic-javascriptreactbiggestsingle-page-applicationjavascript
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