Paul Boocock
Senior Data Engineering Manager
Lichfield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Boocock is a Senior Data Engineering Manager with a decade of experience building scalable data platforms and leading cross-functional engineering teams in gaming and analytics. Currently driving Game Analytics platform strategy at PlayStation Studios, he blends cloud-first (AWS) architecture with hands-on data engineering and DevOps to turn player telemetry into studio-ready insights. Previously as Head of Engineering at Snowplow he guided the open-source data collection ecosystem and contributed to high-profile trackers (including work on the widely used snowplow-javascript-tracker). He pairs technical roadmap leadership with people-first management, hiring and coaching engineering managers and tech leads to deliver measurable KPIs. An educator at heart—former university lecturer and academy leader—he brings a knack for translating complex systems into teachable practices and scalable teams.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Science Technology and Innovation, Master of Science - MS Data Science Technology and Innovation at The University of EdinburghPostgraduate Certificate Higher and Professional Education, Postgraduate Certificate Higher and Professional Education at University of Staffordshire
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Github Skills (8)
javascript10
front-end-development10
testing10
snowplow9
samesite6
ios6
typescript6
google-chrome6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
snowplow/snowplow-javascript-tracker
Oct 2019 - Feb 2022
Snowplow event tracker for client-side and server-side JavaScript. Add analytics to your websites, web apps and servers.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 120 reviews, 347 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily addressed front-end issues and implemented features related to the JavaScript tracker. Their work included fixing issues related to local storage quota limits, handling Optimzely integration errors, and ensuring activity tracking functionality. Furthermore, the user made changes to the codebase, including tests, to address bugs.
snowplow-javascript-trackeranalyticstrackerclient-sidesnowplowanalytics
snowplow/snowplow-gtm-server-side-client
Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
A Google Tag Manager Server-side Client template for collecting events using the Snowplow JavaScript Tracker
Contributions:10 releases, 3 reviews, 31 commits in 5 months
snowplow-javascript-trackergoogle-tag-managereventstrackertag-manager
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