Theo Windebank
Backend Engineer at Gradient Labs
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTheo Windebank is a backend engineer based in London with nine years’ experience building data-driven, cloud-native systems across finance and media. He has driven projects from research prototypes to production—helping launch Monzo’s new Home as a founding backend engineer and building the BBC+ recommendation and ML platform while owning Kubernetes, Terraform and reproducible data pipelines. Comfortable across Software, Data and ML, he blends Python and Go with BigQuery, dbt, Airflow and GCP to deliver dependable analytics and services. He’s taken on leadership responsibilities—interim lead at the BBC running recruitment and squad restructuring—so he pairs hands-on delivery with cross-team communication. His background includes inventing ML-powered assistive tech and bioacoustics tooling, evidence of a taste for applied research and constrained engineering problems. Pragmatic and product-minded, he focuses on turning complex ML and data requirements into auditable, production-ready systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Engineering Science, Master’s Degree Engineering Science at University of OxfordQueen Elizabeth High School
Github Skills (74)
backend10
backend-framework10
backend-api10
api10
complexity10
golang9
dbt-packages9
database9
postgresql9
gcp9
terminology9
serverless9
aws9
azure8
music8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/logtracer
Jul 2018 - Jan 2019
Adds distributed tracing information to logger output and sends traces to the Stackdriver Trace API.
Contributions:13 releases, 8 commits, 14 PRs in 5 months
apitracesloggertracingtrace
bbc/connected-data-amanita
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
API for Content Graph
Contributions:16 releases, 13 PRs, 96 pushes in 3 months
apigraph
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