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2024-08-19
George Wright
Front-End Software Engineer
About
10 years of experience working with TypeScript, JavaScript and the modern web stack. Lead architectural discussions and decisions in the front-end space, ensuring teams can deliver at high velocity, on strong and stable software foundations. At Skyscanner I created and own the Peregrine project, enabling Skyscanner to serve programmatic SEO landing pages configured from Contentful whilst refreshing Falcon's technical foundations. At DAZN I led the Mercury project, DAZN's in-house general-purpose video player and winner of DAZN's Tech Innovation award 2023 Q1.
Career
Expertise
Front-End Specialist
Technologies
Node, Babel, Webpack, ESLint, Express, Workspaces and more
Concepts
Reactive UI – React, Next
Reactive Architecture – RxJS
State Management and Machines
Technical Leadership
People
Agile Process Transformation
Team & Project Leadership
Career Coaching & Skill Development
Process
Systems Design & Delivery
Continuous Integration / Delivery
Video Engineering
Mercury improved the streaming experience under challenging network conditions and enabled dynamic advert insertion. Served 20m views per week.
Achievements
Achieved error rate below 1%
Led 95% reduction in unrecoverable stalls
Engineered in-house multi-track audio solution