Nicholas Griffin
Senior Software Engineer at BBC
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNicholas Griffin is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building reliable back-end systems and cloud-native services. Currently at the BBC, he focuses on production-grade engineering with a practical DevOps mindset, contributing to libraries like an SQS consumer that streamline AWS queue processing, batch handling, and robust error recovery. He pairs strong test-driven practices and dependency refactoring with hands-on operational improvements to reduce runtime incidents. Known among peers as a pragmatic problem-solver, he blends long-term architecture thinking with the day-to-day work of shipping resilient services.
11 years of coding experience
BA, BA at University of DerbyBTEC, BTEC at The City of Leicester College
Github Skills (14)
aws-sqs-fifo10
javascript10
nodejs10
aws10
sinon10
chai10
amazon-sqs10
testing10
polling9
error-handling9
debug8
debugging8
cicd7
build-automation7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/sqs-consumer
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Build Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) based applications without the boilerplate
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:33 releases, 43 reviews, 157 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily focused on improving the functionality and reliability of the SQS consumer library. Their contributions involved updating dependencies, refactoring code, and enhancing test coverage. Furthermore, they implemented features to handle batch processing, and improve error handling. The user demonstrated a good understanding of the project's architecture and AWS SQS integration.
sqs-serviceboilerplatejavascriptserverlessaws-lambda
nicholasgriffintn/github-branch-deployment-action
Sep 2021 - Mar 2023
This is an action that will deploy a folder to a GitHub branch
Contributions:2 releases, 17 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 6 months
publishingdeploymentci-cdtypescriptcontinuous-delivery
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