Building a Resilient and Inclusive Engineering Culture with Matthew Card

"I'm an engineering manager at the BBC. The BBC is quite big, so in other terms, I would be a head of software engineering or a senior engineering manager. So, what I'm trying to get across here is that I have a department, I look after a part of the data platform, wider organization. I look after the core platform, which is the core infrastructure platform that builds out the infrastructure for the platform."

"So, all the things that you've heard about systemic inequalities or inequities, those were the things that were kind of keeping me where I was. But what actually, and I say this to everybody, what actually changed my life is I went on a resilience course. It's really, really interesting because I've sent other people on that resilience course and they didn't get what I got from it."

Matthew Card leads a core infrastructure platform within the BBC's data platform organization. He manages a department equivalent to head of software engineering, overseeing four teams of about 32 to 35 people and two short-lived project teams. He has worked at the BBC for nearly 16 years. He experienced a prolonged period of stagnation during his first decade, influenced by systemic inequalities and remaining in one team. Participation in a resilience course produced a pivotal change, increasing motivation and resilience and enabling significant career progress and leadership responsibilities.

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