Jim Liddell
Head Of Engineering at Desana
East Kilbride, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJim Liddell is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building high-performing teams and scalable products across education, media, and industrial domains. He currently drives engineering excellence at Desana after shaping Aula’s educator-focused product and delivering BBC-scale voice and homepage solutions for the BBC’s Voice + AI teams. A vocal advocate for TDD, CI/CD, automated testing and collaborative programming (pairing and mobbing), Jim blends hands-on architecture with people-first leadership to create inclusive, productive engineering cultures. His background ranges from founding engineering at an automation firm to developing audio-related applications at Linn, giving him a practical edge in systems that span hardware-adjacent and web-native stacks. Based in East Kilbride, he stays deeply engaged with the developer community through meetups and conferences, continually bringing fresh industry trends back to his teams.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Glasgow
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Github Skills (116)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
liddellj/node-aws-travis-playground
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:24 PRs, 135 pushes, 17 branches in 1 month
linn/backbone.hypermedia
Mar 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:48 commits, 1 comment in 7 months
followinghypermediapluginbackbone
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