How I learned to manipulate JSON data with Pandas on a Jupyter Notebook and deconstruct it to a DataFrame ready for queries.Image by author created from Jupiter photo by NASA and Pandas photo by

At the start of the year I took up a job as Head of Delivery for BBC Product Group as part of a new cross discipline leadership team led by our CPO Storm Fagan.It’s

The BBC’s Engineering teams develop and run our digital products at scale — ensuring our digital services are available and accessible to audiences that need them the most, and as as reliable as our broadcast

I have now been a Software Engineering Team Lead on the BBC Sounds mobile apps team for 4 years. So what have I learned from this once-daunting, now-familiar role?Leadership does not mean telling

Photo by Sen on UnsplashModern JavaScript websites are the result of complex code bases, and the code base which powers BBC Online is no exception. There are many dependencies and frameworks that we rely

Image generated with ChatGPT (OpenAI), 2025.IntroWhen working with Python, memory management often feels like a solved problem. The garbage collector quietly does its job, and unlike C or C++, we rarely think about

Written by Yaroslav YatsiukAt Lyft, machine learning (ML) is the engine behind our most critical business functions — from dispatch and pricing optimization to fraud detection and support automation. Our ML infrastructure serves thousands of production

IntroductionLyft started adopting Kotlin into our Android codebase in 2018. Fast forward 7 years, and we are finally done! Lyft Rider, Driver and Lyft Urban Solutions apps are now fully Kotlin-based.I joined Lyft