Simone Spaccarotella
Lead Software Engineer at Sky
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorSimone Spaccarotella is a Senior Software Engineer and technical lead with 11 years’ experience building and operating large-scale web products, most recently leading the BBC Sounds web team and now at Sky. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering (JS/Node/React, AWS) with architecture, line management, on-call product support and recruitment, having led multi-year rebuilds including the Sounds single-page app and the BBC Radioplayer cloud migration. Trained as a Data Scientist with the iPlayer Recommendations team, he has applied ML techniques such as autoencoder-based content embeddings to real product recommendations. Comfortable working across product, UX and delivery teams, he’s known for mentoring graduates, shaping release and CI/CD pipelines, and owning infrastructure decisions. Based in London, he pairs an academic foundation (MSc in Computer Science and Level 7 AI apprenticeship) with a pragmatic focus on reliable, maintainable systems. An owner of personal projects on GitHub, he brings a continuous-learning mindset and an appetite for solving complex cross-disciplinary problems.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (91)
pandas-dataframe10
browser10
yarnpkg10
compiler10
static-site-generator10
amazon-cloudwatch10
jupyter-notebook10
npm10
nextjs10
big-data-analytics10
react10
javascript9
pandas9
data-exploration9
codebuild9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
simonespa/u-turismu
Apr 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 11 months
simonespa/algorithms-and-data-structures
Jan 2021 - Jul 2025
This repo is an open source collection and playground of algorithms, data structures, coding exercises and related documentation to brush up your knowledge of computer science fundamentals.
Contributions:87 PRs, 188 pushes, 91 branches in 4 years 6 months
iterationbfscomputer-sciencegraph-theoryscience
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