Steve Potts
Software Engineering Team Lead - Bbc Sport Data @BBC
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WORK HISTORY
Software Engineering Team Lead - Bbc Sport Data @BBC
Salford, GB
Software Team Lead of an agile cross-functional full-stack software engineering team with responsibility for delivering, maintaining, and operationally supporting systems that publish sports data to the BBC audience at bbc.co.uk/sport, on the BBC Sport mobile app, and (whilst it\'s still around) BBC Red Button text.We manage a suite of back-end service products that act as a gateway between real-time feed providers AND our front-end website used by our audience. Our services deliver over 50 million sport data alert notifications weekly to users of the BBC Sport App, ingest millions of data points in live sporting events, enable minute-by-minute publishing of live commentary text and rich media to BBC Live pages, consumed by 50 million weekly visitors- The service delivering 2.5 billion annual notifications to the BBC Sport app ←- we built that.
EDUCATION
The Open University
MSc, Computing for Commerce and Industry
The Manchester Metropolitan University
BSc, Applied Computing
SKILLS
ABOUT STEVE POTTS
Software Engineering Manager and Technical Lead of cross-functional full-stack software engineering teams with responsibility for delivering, maintaining, and operationally supporting systems that are the backbone of ultra high visitor volume websites (+25M unique/day). Serial investor in people - consistent track record of growing the careers of software engineers to principal and software engineering managers through mentorship and coaching. Directly responsible for more than 60 engineering staff over eight years and sponsor of more than 30 career promotions.Over 35 continuous years in the software industry, with a solid foundation of mission-critical defence applications, handheld cellular devices, mobile applications, web applications, e-commerce, plus specialisms in microservices, nanoservices, serverless cloud architecture, continuous deployment, data transformations, linked data, web standards and accessibility. Experienced at leading teams and managing individuals in Lean / waterfall / Agile environments. Published editor.
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