Vlad Georgescu
Senior Product Manager BBC World Service Digital Development
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolVlad Georgescu is a Senior Product Manager at BBC World Service with over two decades of experience in multilingual digital media, currently defining product strategy across a 41-language portfolio. He combines editorial rigour and technical fluency—contributing code and content configuration to the BBC’s open-source Simorgh project—with formal project management (PRINCE2) and hands-on Agile delivery. His work spans CMS migrations, cross-regional stakeholder alignment and roadmap prioritisation for web and app products used globally across Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia. Comfortable shipping both editorial features and engineering changes, he is particularly skilled at turning complex multilingual requirements into pragmatic, scalable solutions. An early background in radio journalism and an MA in Media Management underpin his ability to marry audience insight with product engineering.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics / Physics, Mathematics / Physics at Mihai Viteazul High School - PloiestiMA, Media Management, MA, Media Management at Leeds Metropolitan UniversityBA, Journalism, BA, Journalism at University of Bucharest
English, Romanian, French
Github Skills (16)
bc10
configuration-management10
react10
typescript-types9
typescript9
javascript9
typescripts9
nextjs9
globalization8
express-ts8
internationalization8
localize8
localization8
rt8
localized8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/simorgh
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
The BBC's Open Source Web Application. Contributions welcome! Used on some of our biggest websites, e.g.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 34 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Vlad primarily contributed to the BBC Simorgh web application by updating navigation menus and content configurations for various language services, including Gahuza, Turkce, Somali, and others. The code changes focused on modifying service configuration files, specifically updating navigation labels and linking to new content. Furthermore, the user merged branches and updated podcast external links across multiple languages, demonstrating a focus on maintaining and expanding content offerings within the platform.
isomorphic-javascriptreactbiggestsingle-page-applicationjavascript
georgva0/tagging-monitor
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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