Sam French
Principal Software Engineer at BBC News
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSam French is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience architecting and shipping resilient, data-driven web experiences for BBC News. He has grown through multiple engineering roles at the BBC, from trainee client-side developer to principal, with deep expertise in responsive design, linked data and cloud-based newsroom systems. Sam combines hands-on front-end craft with an ability to shape scalable newsroom platforms that surface complex political and local data to millions of users. Based in England, he is pragmatic about delivery and detail-oriented in design, often working at the intersection of editorial needs and technical constraints. A background in Computer Software Engineering from the University of Brighton underpins his long-running commitment to practical, maintainable web architecture.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering at University of Brighton
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Github Skills (119)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
BBC-News/alephant-preview
Feb 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:59 commits, 20 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 11 months
reactpreviewer
BBC-News/alephant-publisher-queue
Dec 2015 - Sep 2019
Static publishing to S3 based on SQS messages
Contributions:19 PRs, 36 pushes, 19 branches in 3 years 9 months
golangpublishingaws-s3awssqs
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