Simone Spaccarotella
Senior Software Engineer at Sky
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimone Spaccarotella is a Senior Software Engineer and technical lead with 11 years’ experience building and operating large-scale web products, most recently leading the BBC Sounds web team and now at Sky. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering (JS/Node/React, AWS) with architecture, line management, on-call product support and recruitment, having led multi-year rebuilds including the Sounds single-page app and the BBC Radioplayer cloud migration. Trained as a Data Scientist with the iPlayer Recommendations team, he has applied ML techniques such as autoencoder-based content embeddings to real product recommendations. Comfortable working across product, UX and delivery teams, he’s known for mentoring graduates, shaping release and CI/CD pipelines, and owning infrastructure decisions. Based in London, he pairs an academic foundation (MSc in Computer Science and Level 7 AI apprenticeship) with a pragmatic focus on reliable, maintainable systems. An owner of personal projects on GitHub, he brings a continuous-learning mindset and an appetite for solving complex cross-disciplinary problems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master's degree (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Università della CalabriaLevel 7 AI and Data Science Apprenticeship, Artificial Intelligence, Level 7 AI and Data Science Apprenticeship, Artificial Intelligence at Cambridge Spark
Italian, English
Github Skills (119)
hybrid10
javascript10
browser10
codebuild10
ref10
compiler10
aws-codebuild10
static-site-generator10
amazon-cloudwatch10
typescript10
amazon10
aws-cloudwatch10
npm10
nextjs10
cloudwatch10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
simonespa/u-turismu
Apr 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 11 months
simonespa/simonespaccarotella.com
Dec 2018 - Jul 2024
Contributions:14 PRs, 34 pushes, 16 branches in 5 years 8 months
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