Sam Mesterton-gibbons
Senior R&D Engineer at BBC
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Mesterton-gibbons is a Senior R&D Engineer with 13 years' experience designing cloud-native media systems, currently building the Time-addressable Media Store API at BBC R&D to support near-live, asynchronous and multi-vendor media workflows. He combines hands-on backend development in Python and Node.js with infrastructure-as-code, AWS and OpenStack deployments, and pragmatic automation that moves artifacts from CI into production. Sam has led architecture and roadmaps for cloud media processing, introduced automated media-content validation into CI, and mentored graduate engineers while presenting work externally. Comfortable learning new languages and domains (from modern C++ for live streaming to TypeScript integrations), he pairs systems thinking with practical prototyping—evident in container packaging innovations and OAuth-based access control experiments. Based in England, he quietly blends broadcast engineering roots with cloud-first software practice, focused on making complex media pipelines operable and auditable.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 1st with Distinction, Electronic Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 1st with Distinction at University of YorkAlton College
Github Skills (168)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ystv/BMDSwitcherApps
Nov 2013 - Nov 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years
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