Oliver Diamond
Principal Engineer at ITV
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Diamond is a Principal Engineer based in London with 10 years of hands-on experience building and scaling full‑stack JavaScript systems and cloud-native architectures across media, finance and education. He currently leads multiple teams at ITV on a high‑revenue advertising platform built with Typescript, React and AWS serverless technologies, and has repeatedly driven microservice, devops and CI/CD transformations as CTO and engineering lead. Known for growing junior-heavy teams, he pairs mentorship and developer experience improvements with pragmatic delivery—shifting monoliths to microservices, introducing GitOps and event-driven patterns to accelerate velocity. His eclectic background (politics, film, finance) informs a product-focused mindset that prioritises business value over vanity tech, while still championing functional programming and programmer autonomy.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 Physics, 2:1 Physics at Imperial College London
Github Skills (101)
material-ui10
react-components10
emacs10
react10
octokit9
javascript9
docker-compose9
emacs-lsp9
mui9
melpa9
sdk9
spacemacs9
octokit-js9
vim9
explore9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
unalterable/CV
Sep 2016 - May 2023
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 6 years 9 months
unalterable/spending-analysis
Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
An application for analysing spending patterns from a bank statement
Contributions:1 PR, 41 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
pythonstatementpatternsspendingbank
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