Simon Gregory
Principal Software Engineer at BBC
United Kingdom
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SeniorSimon Gregory is a Principal Software Engineer in the UK with over 20 years of experience building commercial and open-source products for high-profile clients including the BBC, Volkswagen, Sony and Philips. He currently leads development of the BBC iPlayer Live Restart media player and revitalised the iPlayer Desktop app, bringing full automated functional test coverage and an accessibility standard that outperformed major competitors. A pragmatic, team-focused engineer, he champions BDD and outside-in testing (using Cucumber) to translate business requirements into robust, testable designs. His stack spans JavaScript, Node, Ruby and Flash/Flex-era tooling, and he is known for creating practical engineering fixtures like mock servers to enable reliable CI.
21 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (85)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
simongregory/actionscript3-tmbundle
Apr 2007 - Oct 2016
ActionScript 3 TextMate Bundle
Contributions:1251 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 9 years 7 months
actionscripttextmatebundletextmate-bundletypescript
simongregory/flex-tmbundle
Apr 2007 - Oct 2011
Contributions:220 commits in 4 years 6 months
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