Recent Projects

As epic lead, I oversaw the end-to-end delivery of Live Comments — a feature enabling audiences to post and view real-time comments directly on BBC live pages. This brought a new layer of interactivity to live news and sport coverage, allowing readers to engage with unfolding stories as they happen.

Leading the epic involved coordinating across multiple teams, defining the technical approach, and contributing directly to the front-end implementation using React and TypeScript. The feature required careful consideration of moderation, accessibility, and performance at BBC scale.

This project involved implementing an A/B test on the BBC Sport Predictor to evaluate the impact of different visual branding approaches on user engagement. Using Optimizely as the experimentation platform, distinct branding variants were served to different user groups to measure which design best drove participation.

Key work included integrating Optimizely view and click events with user attributes, implementing event naming conventions for experimentation tracking, and wiring ATI analytics events alongside Optimizely events. Extensive debugging ensured events fired correctly on page load and user interaction, with coverage for edge cases where user data was absent or undefined.

This project centered on building the BBC sport calendar web page using JavaScript and React.

The Sport Calendar is a dynamic and user-friendly tool designed to help users keep track of upcoming sports events, fixtures, and important dates. It features a clean layout, intuitive navigation, and customizable options, making it easy to stay organized and never miss a match or tournament. Whether you’re a fan, athlete, or organizer, the Sport Calendar streamlines scheduling and enhances your sports experience.

The Sport Calendar leverages modern web technologies including JavaScript and React to deliver a seamless and interactive experience. JavaScript powers the core functionality and user interactions, while React ensures efficient rendering and a responsive interface across devices. The project also incorporates best practices in code structure and documentation, making it maintainable and scalable for future enhancements.

This project focused on integrating an inline contact form directly within live story pages, enabling users to easily send comments or feedback to the editorial team while a story is unfolding. The form appears seamlessly alongside the live content, allowing viewers to share their thoughts, ask questions, or provide insights in real time.

By streamlining the feedback process, the solution encourages audience participation and fosters a more interactive relationship between users and editors. Submitted comments are securely transmitted and can be reviewed by editorial staff for potential inclusion or response during live coverage.

Built a real-time concurrent viewer count displayed within promotional blocks on BBC live pages. The feature surfaces live audience data to both readers and editorial teams, making page popularity visible during breaking news and major sporting events.

Built the BBC Live Hub — a centralised destination for users to discover and access live streams across BBC News, Sport, and Weather. The page surfaces currently live and upcoming broadcasts in a single view, with dynamic updates as programming changes throughout the day.

This project focused on developing a comprehensive and up-to-date Football Fixtures page using JavaScript, React, TypeScript, and cloud services from Amazon Web Services (AWS). The goal was to provide football fans with a central location to access upcoming and past match information, live scores, and detailed statistics.

The development team utilized JavaScript for various functionalities throughout the BBC Football Fixtures page. Features like filtering fixtures by competition, date, or team, along with displaying past scores and key match statistics, relied on JavaScript for smooth operation.

React, a popular JavaScript library, played a crucial role in creating a dynamic and responsive user experience. The project prioritized well-structured and documented code using JavaScript and React best practices, along with TypeScript for type safety. This approach facilitated future maintenance and feature additions.

A key aspect of the project involved integrating with AWS services. This involved leveraging AWS serverless computing solutions like AWS Lambda to process incoming data feeds from a data provider like OPTA. OPTA, a leading sports data provider, provides real-time and historical football match data. The processed data, containing live scores and match updates, would then be used by the JavaScript code to dynamically update the BBC Football Fixtures page, ensuring fans have access to the most recent information.

This successful implementation using JavaScript, React, TypeScript, and AWS services delivered a user-friendly, informative, and up-to-date BBC Football Fixtures page within a dynamic and interactive web experience.