Jag Kandasamy
Software Engineering Team Lead at BBC
South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJag Kandasamy is a seasoned software engineering leader with 13 years of experience building data-driven web platforms across life sciences and public media. He has led engineering teams at NatureMetrics and HDR UK, translating bioinformatics and health data challenges into production-ready Python and JavaScript systems while holding an Azure Developer Associate certification. Comfortable spanning backend, cloud and React-based frontends, Jag blends hands-on development with team leadership to deliver tools that enable scientific discovery and operational insight. His background—from a MSc in Bioinformatics to roles at EMBL‑EBI and the Francis Crick Institute—gives him a rare mix of domain knowledge and pragmatic engineering. Now at the BBC as a Software Engineering Team Lead, he continues to steer cross-functional teams toward scalable, sustainable solutions that bridge research-grade data needs and real-world product constraints.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Degree: BSc Microbiology, Bachelors Degree: BSc Microbiology at Dr.G.R.Damodaran college of scienceMasters Bioinformatics, Masters Bioinformatics at King's College LondonGithub contributions (3)
jeevajoy/Wordpress-CiviCRM-Member-Role-Sync
Oct 2012 - Nov 2012
Contributions:6 commits in 1 month
jeevajoy/Wordpress-CiviCRM-Events-Calendar
Oct 2012 - Oct 2012
Contributions:3 commits in 1 day
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