Alex Williamson

Principal Software Engineer @BBC Studios

London, GB

Led the design and development of internal tools, services and features that are now the reusable building blocks for our Snowflake-based big data platform - enabling any team across BBC Studios, UKTV and BritBox with the capability to ingest, transform, compute on, and activate large datasets.Worked daily across the business, collaborating with strategic influence across cross-functional teams such as Technology, Architecture, Product and Data Governance. Ran and participated in daily scrums, weekly refinements, facilitated retrospectives, project team check-ins, steering groups, and planning sessions with internal and external stakeholders.Delivered robust, customer-centric solutions with a strong focus on production uptime and safety. Remained hands-on, coached, contibuted code, reviewed pull requests and was on-call for monitoring our production systems. Created living documentation, working prototypes, architecture diagrams, and ran deep-dive sessions.Built various tools with teams includes our Internal Development Platform (Next.js, React.js, Koa.js) with multiple supporting APIs (API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Terraform) connected to externally hosted SaaS providers (Snowflake, Sifflet, Databricks, Alation, BoxyHQ) enabling departments to manage users and delegate access to critical systems themselves.Partnered with line-of-business teams to optimise their use of the data warehouse via a medallion architecture. Used tools including DBT, Airflow, GitHub, Fivetran, Docker and Snowflake Container Services.Provided long-term leadership coverage in roles such as Team Lead and Technology Manager, demonstrating adaptability, strategic oversight, and mentorship.Promoted continuous improvement by encouraging peer feedback and knowledge sharing, strengthening psychological safety within the team.Played a key role in recruitment, conducting technical screenings and interviews, resulting in multiple successful hires.

De Montfort University

BSc (First Class Hons.), Internet Computing