James Shephard joined the Render Engine Broadcasting team in BBC Research & Development in 2019. He has worked at the BBC since 2012 as a developer in iPlayer and Sounds. Previously James worked in mobile application development and the computer games industry. He studied Architecture and then Software Engineering at Manchester Metropolitan University.

In the Render Engine Broadcasting team James is looking at how techniques and tools from real-time 3D games can be used to provide new forms of valuable content to BBC audiences, and how that can be done sustainably and realistically at large scale.