Katie Roberts
Technical Director at Nearform
Stockport, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Roberts is a Technical Director and AI-native engineering specialist based in Stockport with over two decades of experience guiding large-scale software delivery and organisational transformation. She helps mature, brownfield engineering teams pragmatically adopt AI-assisted workflows, balancing legacy architecture, delivery risk, and operational stability to deliver measurable improvements. At Nearform she has led hundreds of engineers, created skills communities, and moved from hands-on coding to shaping strategy and documentation across strategic accounts. Formerly a BBC engineering manager, she brings deep expertise in search, high-traffic web platforms and cloud migrations. Outside work she remains a lifelong maker—sculpting clay and textiles and playing guitar—which reflects her hands-on, creative approach to solving socio-technical challenges.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Phychology, BSc Phychology at Dundee UniversityMA Design for Interactive Media Programming design, MA Design for Interactive Media Programming design at Middlesex University
Github Skills (49)
javascript10
windows10
linux10
js10
nodejs10
rocket9
macos9
boilerplate6
authentication6
react5
android5
sprint5
solr5
in-progress5
injection5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
katie-roberts/presentations
Nov 2016 - Sep 2024
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 11 months
katie-roberts/titus-1
Jul 2022 - Mar 2023
Deploy useful features in sprint one
Contributions:15 PRs, 16 pushes, 15 branches in 8 months
sprintdocker
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