John Beech
Software Team Lead at Netacea
Marple, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Beech is a seasoned Software Team Lead with over a decade of hands-on experience building and shipping user-focused web, mobile, and TV products across organisations like the BBC, Marqeta, and Netacea. He blends pragmatic engineering with agile, data-driven leadership—recruiting and mentoring teams, promoting best practice, and using analytics to drive product decisions. Technically comfortable from legacy Flash and Haxe games to modern front-end stacks, he has contributed to high-profile open-source work such as the BBC's TV Application Layer, improving cross-device compatibility and test coverage. Known for a methodical, scientific approach to delivery, he excels at turning complex platform requirements into reliable, maintainable interfaces. Based in Marple, UK, he pairs commercial impact with a long track record of continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Software Engineering, BEng, Software Engineering at The University of Manchester
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Github Skills (7)
jscript10
android-application10
javascript10
front-end-development10
android-applications10
testing10
s59
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/tal
Jul 2015 - May 2017
TV Application Layer
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 27 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the TV application layer. They refactored and modified JavaScript files related to widgets, events, and sanitization logic, focusing on improving code maintainability and functionality. Key contributions involved adding an ES5 shim for `Array.prototype.indexOf`, refactoring to expect a default page strategy in related files, and implementing system event handling for Playstation 3 devices. Additionally, the user added tests to ensure the functionality of the PS3Base device events.
lgwebosjavascriptbroadcasttelevision
johnbeech/advent-of-code-2016
Dec 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years
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