Josh Coventry
Engineering Manager, Observability at Nine
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Coventry is an experienced engineering manager focused on observability and platform capabilities, currently leading efforts at Nine after senior leadership roles at the BBC overseeing Elections and World Service News engineering teams. With two decades in technology and six years in senior management roles, he blends hands-on front-end experience—evidenced by contributions to the BBC’s high-profile Simorgh web app—with a knack for stabilising complex production systems. He has moved between startups and large media organisations, founding a software company early in his career and scaling engineering teams at Airship and the BBC. Known for pragmatic maintenance work and UI improvements as well as strategic observability initiatives, he balances delivery velocity with long-term platform health. Based in Sydney and holding a BA in Business Management and Information Management from the University of Sheffield, he brings both product sensibility and operational discipline to engineering leadership.
5 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons), Business Management and Information Management, BA (Hons), Business Management and Information Management at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (8)
front-end-development10
react10
javascript9
css8
html8
typescript-types7
typescript7
typescripts7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/simorgh
May 2020 - May 2022
The BBC's Open Source Web Application. Contributions welcome! Used on some of our biggest websites, e.g.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:117 reviews, 346 commits, 182 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Josh contributed to the Simorgh project, which is a BBC web application. Their work primarily involved merging branches and implementing updates, specifically by updating the joinus link in the application's template, the addition of an image placeholder, the addition of a new option to improve the quality and stability of the build. These changes suggest the user was involved in maintenance and UI/UX improvements for the frontend. They also worked on fixing the issues of word wrap for headline.
isomorphic-javascriptreactbiggestsingle-page-applicationjavascript
bbc-fatima/simorgh
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
The BBC's Open Source Single Page Application. Contributions welcome! Used on some of our biggest websites, e.g.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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