Sam Hill
Director Of Engineering at CSL Group
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Hill is a seasoned technology executive and hands-on engineer with a 30+ year coding background and over a decade in senior leadership roles, currently serving as Director of Engineering. He has led large, distributed organisations—most recently as CTO/VP Technology at WildBrain and formerly heading BBC Platform engineering—delivering complex platforms for media, e-commerce and finance that combine data, rights, licensing and automation at scale. Sam excels at translating business strategy into technical roadmaps, driving cloud transformations, CI/CD and AI/ML initiatives, while having overseen multi-hundred-person engineering organisations and multi-million pound investments. His career spans startups to enterprise, including founding a profitable ISP and scaling Tesco’s international online grocery platform to handle peak high-volume traffic. Known for pragmatic people leadership, coaching and fostering technical talent, he balances deep architecture expertise with commercial and operational accountability. Based in London, he brings a rare blend of product, data and platform experience that consistently turns complex challenges into measurable value.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Harvey Grammar SchoolBSc Honours Computer Science, BSc Honours Computer Science at University of Reading
Github Skills (11)
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Github contributions (5)
Illumitec/software
Jan 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:3 pushes in 10 years 2 months
bbc/platform
Aug 2018 - Aug 2019
BBC Platform - template files and approaches
Contributions:1 branch in 11 months
templatebbc
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