Graham Keenan
Software Engineer at BBC
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGraham Keenan is a pragmatic software engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems, internal tooling, and cloud-native APIs for high-traffic products at organisations like the BBC. He combines a strong academic background (PhD in Chemistry and a Master's in Software Development) with hands-on experience designing modular automation software and scalable AWS services, often operating as on-call for live incident response. At the University of Glasgow he led teams creating autonomous lab systems and data pipelines that supported published research, and at the BBC he has driven adoption of TypeScript across legacy codebases and maintained critical programme-catalogue databases. Focused on improving developer experience, he specializes in creating reliable tooling that smooths everyday workflows while tackling large-scale data ingestion and processing challenges.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry, 2:1, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry, 2:1 at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (21)
arduino-library9
arduino8
python7
robot6
operating-system5
discovery5
simulation5
profanity4
async4
synthesis4
science4
binding3
rust3
modular3
char3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Tyrannican/safir
Apr 2023 - Jan 2025
Share key/value pairs between different shell sessions
Contributions:37 PRs, 79 pushes, 36 branches in 1 year 8 months
Tyrannican/filetools-rs
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Path utility crate
Contributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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