Alex Bristow

Hello, I'm Alex Bristow.

I build tools and products that make complex systems clearer and easier to use at NBCUniversal and Sky.

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Projects

Most of my professional work is confidential, so these are the projects where I can show how I think, the trade-offs I made, and what I shipped.

Experience

Over the past 8 years I've built workflow tools, operational software, and customer-facing products used by thousands of employees and millions of customers every day.

  1. NBCUniversal

    2023 to now · Senior Developer

    Own front end for an enterprise GenAI platform, the first GenAI product in the business to reach production. Built the Alerting Gateway portal used by hundreds of engineers and ops staff to keep Peacock, NOW, SkyShowtime and Showmax streaming.

  2. Ocado

    2022 to 2023 · Senior Software Engineer

    Led the platform-wide migration from Universal Analytics to GA4 on behalf of ~100 engineers, and delivered the Recipes feature end to end across 10+ international retailers.

  3. Sky

    2018 to 2022 · Front End Developer → Senior Front End Developer

    Built large-scale data visualisation tools for monitoring viewership and streaming health, and a React boilerplate adopted by dozens of teams.

  4. SPAR UK

    2014 to 2018 · Graduate Buyer → Trading Manager

    Commercial responsibility for a ~£120m retail category. Started building internal tools to improve buying workflows, which led to a career change into software engineering.

Read my CV

About

I'm a senior product engineer with strong frontend roots, and I like making products that are clear to use and quick in practice.

I like being involved from the first sketch through to launch, making sure the product feels right and keeps working in production.

Football team
Nottingham Forest
Favourite artist
Boards of Canada, #1 artist every year
Favourite books
The First Law series
Oddly obsessed with
Watching athletics
Favourite game
Old School RuneScape, 2281 total level
Favourite ambient noise
Small planes flying in the summer
Random qualification
Diploma in sound engineering
Most weekends
Surviving with 2 toddlers

Get in touch

I'm not actively looking, but I'm always interested in work that feels genuinely interesting. Feel free to reach out.