Simon Liddicott
Team Lead, Systems Engineering at BBC
Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Liddicott is a broadcast and OTT systems engineering lead with 12+ years at the BBC, where he progressed from broadcast engineer to Team Lead, designing and migrating media systems and automating deployments across Windows and Linux environments. He specialises in digital assets, metadata, codecs and delivery, and is known for pragmatic problem-solving that turns legacy platforms into automated, auditable operations using Ansible. Simon combines hands-on server administration with project delivery—building web-based media tools, cross-site search and TV gallery replacements for regional sites—while training support teams to sustain those systems. An active contributor to broadcast open-source projects, he brings deep domain expertise and a rare blend of operational discipline and systems-integration engineering competence.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Broadcast Technology, Broadcast Technology at De Montfort UniversityEngineering Competence (Broadcast Systems Integration Engineer), Engineering Competence (Broadcast Systems Integration Engineer) at Birmingham City University
Github Skills (114)
difference10
python10
automation10
ssh10
network-configuration10
broadcasting10
graphics-engine10
audio10
ansible10
video-streaming10
csv10
ipcamera10
vaapi10
streaming-video10
merge10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
silid/community.windows
Nov 2020 - Mar 2023
Windows community collection for Ansible
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 4 months
windowsansiblewindows-servicepefilewake-on-lan
silid/companion
Sep 2018 - Apr 2021
Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck to be a professional shotbox surface for an increasing amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 7 months
professionalpresentationvideo-playbackstreamdeckbroadcast
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