Marianne Pearson
Technical Lead at Disney Streaming
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMarianne Pearson is a technical lead with eight years of software engineering experience, currently shaping streaming platform work at Disney Streaming after earlier web-focused development for Capgemini and HMRC. She transitioned from a strong academic background in biochemistry and an MSc in Bioinformatics into software, bringing a data-driven, research-oriented mindset to production Scala/Play applications. Marianne thrives in supportive Scrum teams and is known for steadily pushing technical boundaries while mentoring peers. Her hands-on history ranges from scientific software documentation to building scalable web services, giving her a rare blend of lab rigor and engineering pragmatism. Passionate about increasing women’s participation in tech, she actively supports diversity and inclusion within engineering. Colleagues describe her as both curious and collaborative, someone who leverages cross-disciplinary insight to solve practical problems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Bioinformatics, Master of Science (MSc) Bioinformatics at The University of EdinburghBachelor of Science (BSc) with a year in industry Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (BSc) with a year in industry Biochemistry at University of York
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hmrc/agent-invitations-frontend
Dec 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:217 commits, 329 PRs, 411 pushes in 2 years 1 month
hmrc/agent-client-management-helpdesk-frontend
May 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:55 PRs, 73 pushes, 62 branches in 1 year 7 months
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