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Andy Barrett-Smith

@andymsuk

Software Engineering Manager / Principal at @NuffieldHealth. Ex @Pret & @BBC. @UniOfSurrey alumnus.

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What's important when it comes to progressing in your career as a software engineer? Richard Owen gives us his insights having worked at Amazon, Facebook, Nine Australia, and the BBC! youtube.com/watch?v=p9GJhf…

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We're hiring for one of the iPlayer API teams! Experienced using Node to build scalable REST and GraphQL APIs? Experienced with databases? This job is for you! More details and apply at careerssearch.bbc.co.uk/jobs/job/Senio… Closing Date: 13 April. Please RT. #Hiring #SoftwareEngineer

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Less than an hour to go!! Join us for another 3 great talks, this time all about #data! meetup.com/BBC-Tech-Meetu… #BBCTechMeetup #OnlineMeetup #DataEngineering #SoftwareEngineering #BigData

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Talks start in 30 minutes! Our topic tonight is data. 💻 Doing Data Right for The BBC Bill Thompson and @ReeJo1 🔍 Demystifying Elasticsearch Madhusudhan Konda 🪵 Making over 2 billion access log lines per day queryable @tdp_org meetup.com/BBC-Tech-Meetu…

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Got a phishing SMS from "NHS". Although it appears alongside legit texts, it is a phishing attempt - the address is not nhs.uk or gov.uk. You don't need to apply for a vaccination pass, you can get one on the NHS app. #phishing #covid19

Got a phishing SMS from "NHS". Although it appears alongside legit texts, it is a phishing attempt - the address is not nhs.uk or gov.uk. You don't need to apply for a vaccination pass, you can get one on the NHS app. #phishing #covid19
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Happy new year everyone! In our first meetup of 2022 we'll be covering Testing, Automation, and BDD. 📮 Postman for API Testing - Christy Solomon 🔍 To BDD or Not to BDD - Petros Plakogiannis 🖥️ Taiko - Reliable Browser Automation - Amit Sarkar meetup.com/BBC-Tech-Meetu…

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📣 Announcing our 2nd meetup of 2022 📣 - Component-Driven Development (CDD) - Fayokemi Adeyina - How to bring accessibility into your teams - Laveena Ramchandani - Introduction to Functional Programming - Jack Blundell RSVP at meetup.com/BBC-Tech-Meetu… #BBCTechMeetup #Software

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This is live now! Laveena is very passionate about accessibility! Come and find out some very important facts and how you can help. #BBCTechMeetup #accessibility #a11y

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Testing your product for #accessibility yourself will *never* compare with testing with real users. This week we conducted 5 usability interviews with frequent screen reader users. Here are some things I observed: (a thread) 🧵👇

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We’ve been talking about it. You’ve been asking for it. We’ve been working on it. Today, we launched it: the image description reminder! It’s live to 10% of global Twitter across Android, iOS, and Web. 🧵 (1 of 6)

We’ve been talking about it. 
You’ve been asking for it. 
We’ve been working on it. 
Today, we launched it: the image description reminder!

It’s live to 10% of global Twitter across Android, iOS, and Web. 🧵 (1 of 6)
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Last day working for BBC all done! Thank you to all my past and present colleagues for a great 8 years, for the leaving gifts and card and a great night yesterday! 1 week off to relax now, before the next chapter begins. #LastDay #NewJob

Last day working for <a href="/BBC/">BBC</a> all done! 

Thank you to all my past and present colleagues for a great 8 years, for the leaving gifts and card and a great night yesterday!

1 week off to relax now, before the next chapter begins.

#LastDay #NewJob
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I'm #hiring! I have a Senior #DataEngineer vacancy at Pret. Looking for someone who can play a big part in designing and building big data pipelines in a culture that supports learning, collaboration, transparency, and inclusiveness. Apply at pret.csod.com/ux/ats/careers… Please RT.

I'm #hiring! I have a Senior #DataEngineer vacancy at 
<a href="/Pret/">Pret</a>. Looking for someone who can play a big part in designing and building big data pipelines in a culture that supports learning, collaboration, transparency, and inclusiveness. Apply at pret.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…
Please RT.
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When developing interactive web components, it is all too easy to make it visually great but forget about users that are using assistive technology like a screenreader. Consider using ARIA live regions to announce changes of dynamic content. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web… #accessibility