Mar 2023 - Present
Elliot Blackburn
- @elliotb
- Engineering Leader
- Bristol, UK
Resume
View allDec 2021 - Feb 2023
Senior Software Engineer, DICE FM
Feb 2021 - Dec 2021
Technology Manager, Just Eat Takeaway.com
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
Senior Software Engineer, Just Eat Takeaway.com
Portfolio
This week, I start my new job at DICE.FM. Super excited to join the startup life again, especially one helping people discover new live music events!
Landed my first paying customer on TicketBalloon, my side hussle providing event bookings for small businesses!! Nothing feels quite like landing your first customer on a new product
My little programming project is finally ready. Some may say it's a bad time to launch an event booking platform (darn you COVID) but here we go anyway. Welcome to the world TicketBalloon! www.tick...
I've taken over as lead maintainer of the StatsD project - https://github.com/statsd/statsd
Advice to Junior Engineers
I joined Juan Pa on the GitHub Education live stream this week. One of the topics that we talked about in depth was time management. I went into a bit more detail on The Green Coder - Organising Yo...
It looks like it's promotion season, one of the best pieces of advice I've ever had is to maintain a Brag Document. I wrote down my process on The Green Coder - Promotion and Brag Documents.
I was chatting to Anna Beltrami about giving good estimates as an engineer. It felt like a waste to lose it all in slack so I decided to publish it on The Green Coder - Giving Good Estimates.