Ian Arundale is a Lead Architect with 13 years’ experience designing and delivering cloud-native, broadcast-scale digital products for millions of users across web, mobile, IPTV and broadcast platforms. At the BBC he leads 80+ engineers and nine multidisciplinary teams, translating product vision into technical strategy, managing multi-million-pound work packages and acting as incident commander during major events. He combines hands-on full‑stack development (notably contributions to the BBC’s TV Application Layer open-source project) with recruiting, coaching and building high-performing architecture teams. Experienced across AWS microservices, streaming and device platforms, he is skilled at pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions and driving cross-org transformation. A neurodiversity advocate and energetic speaker, he blends curiosity, courage and humility to coach others and push for sustainable technical change.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Internet Computing Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Internet Computing Computer Science at The University of Manchester
Master of Science (MSc) Software Engineering and Internet Architecture Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Software Engineering and Internet Architecture Computer Science at University of Bradford
Contributions:44 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to the `bbc/tal` repository, which is a TV Application Layer project. Their commits focused on enhancing the HbbTV broadcast source, adding a setChannel API, and updating the existing samsungmaple API, including improving error reporting. They implemented features related to handling channel changes, and adjusting the broadcast's size and styling. The user also worked on general tidying of the unit tests.
Contributions:21 commits, 1 push in 5 years 2 months
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