Sacha Guddoy
Principal Frontend Engineer at Blackbird plc
St Leonards, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSacha Guddoy is a Principal Frontend Engineer with 11 years’ experience building real-time, media-rich web applications and leading frontend teams across broadcast and cloud video platforms. Currently at Blackbird plc after senior engineering leadership at Proximie and Grabyo, he combines hands-on engineering with team mentoring, platform ownership, and client-side security stewardship. He has driven scalable frontend architectures and developer experience initiatives for live video editing and streaming products, and has practical WebGL/HTML5 media expertise—contributing front-end fixes to the notable bbc/VideoContext project around audio nodes, media loading and alpha blending. Based in St Leonards, UK, he pairs a Digital Media degree with a background in content production and retail operations, bringing a pragmatic, user-focused perspective to complex media systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Digital Media, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Digital Media at London Metropolitan University
French
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Github Skills (8)
html10
graph10
javascript10
renderer10
html5-video10
360-video10
graphing10
webgl8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/VideoContext
May 2018 - Dec 2018
An experimental HTML5 & WebGL video composition and rendering API.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 22 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Sacha primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the video composition and rendering API project. Their work included adding and modifying HTML5 media element functionalities, specifically focusing on audio nodes, and addressing issues related to media element loading, seeking, and playback. Additionally, the user fixed bugs related to alpha blending within the rendering pipeline and updated the volume control to affect all audio nodes in the context.
apicompositionhtml5-videowebglcanvas
Sacharified/guddoy.dev
Jul 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:34 PRs, 140 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 5 months
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