Growing an Engineering Culture with Kafka

Growing an Engineering Culture with Kafka

Keith Davidson, Director of Group TV Distribution Platforms, Sky - leads the department that develops and operates the TV distribution platforms for Sky Group, these platforms cover Live Streaming, Content Process Live and VOD, Data Analytics, Advertising, Content Protection and is responsible for Group Reliability Engineering. His team has over 700 people, across London, Leeds, Lisbon and Scotland, comprising a wide range of roles such as architects, analysts, developers, streaming engineers, reliability engineers, data scientists and program managers. Sky Group supports the international expansion of Sky services and leading entertainment brands such as Sky+, Sky Go, Sky Q, Sky Kids, Sky Store, Sky Ticket, NOW TV, Sky News and Sky Sports.