Marc Gilbert
Senior Delivery Lead at Softwire
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMarc Gilbert is a seasoned digital programme leader with 25 years’ experience evolving from web developer to senior delivery lead, currently heading delivery at Softwire in London. He blends hands-on engineering roots—evident from early BBC developer roles and full‑stack contributions to the BBC’s open-source Simorgh project—with strategic programme leadership across agencies and charities. Certified as a Scrum Master and PRINCE2 practitioner, he specialises in shaping cross-functional teams to deliver complex digital products on time and at scale. Marc has repeatedly stepped into interim and freelance director roles, demonstrating an ability to stabilise delivery and accelerate outcomes in fast-changing organisations. He pairs technical empathy (API and frontend experience) with commercial delivery instincts developed at agencies like Wunderman Thompson, Hogarth and OLIVER. Comfortable switching between code, tests and boardroom priorities, he’s known for translating technical trade-offs into practical delivery plans.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, 2:1, BSc (Hons), Computer Science, 2:1 at University of Leeds
English, Hebrew, Arabic
Github Skills (9)
typescript10
express-ts10
nextjs10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
javascript9
newsapi8
rt8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/simorgh
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
The BBC's Open Source Web Application. Contributions welcome! Used on some of our biggest websites, e.g.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:227 reviews, 85 commits, 282 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Marc primarily focused on enhancing the article feature within the BBC's Simorgh web application, as indicated by the "WSTEAM-162" and "WSTEAM1-180" prefixes in commit messages. Their work involved integrating recommendations into the article pages, fetching article data via the BFF (Backend for Frontend), and making updates to the Cypress tests. The user also made changes to the article page component and related fixtures, indicating involvement in both frontend and backend aspects of the application.
isomorphic-javascriptreactbiggestsingle-page-applicationjavascript
shayneahchoon/TripBook-2
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
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