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Elliot Blackburn

@elliotb
Engineering Leader
Bristol, UK

Engineering Manager

Software Engineering

Side Hustle

Advisor

Kubernetes

Remote Worker

Launcher

Mentor

Speaker

Hey, I'm Elliot! I'm an Engineering Manager at DICE.FM.On the side I'm working on my side hussle, TicketBalloon where I'm building an event booking system for small businesses.

I love to chat tech, products, and business - so feel free to get in touch. More about me.

I'm open to

advising companies,

speaking at events,

and full time roles.

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Mar 2023 - Present

Engineering Manager, DICE FM

Dec 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

Links

Website

GitHub

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Advice to Junior Engineers

I'm a huge fan of mentoring folks who are just entering the tech industry. This is a collection of advice I've given to fresh engineers!

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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!

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.