Software Engineer, Retired Historian

Nash Sibanda

Say hello!

Product-driven engineer for B2B SaaS and startups.

Ph.D Cinema History, focused on the transition to sound.

Taught film to British undergraduates

Taught English to Japanese high-schoolers.

Tokyo resident, obsessed with city-pop and karaoke.

British expat, but less grumpy than you might expect.

Work

What I did

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    MakeLeaps, Engineer

    Python / Django / React / TypeScript / Postgres / CircleCI / Docker / Mezmo / Honeycomb / Sentry

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    Tessian (London, UK), Engineer

    Python / React / TypeScript / Postgres / AWS / Terraform / Kibana / Docker / Elasticsearch / Concourse

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    JET Programme (Ibaraki Prefectural), ALT

    Blackboard / Chalk / PowerPoint / Printer / Fax Machine / Worksheets

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    De Montfort University & University of Derby, Lecturer and Seminar Leader

    Textbooks / Whiteboard / Circular Seating Arrangements / Projector / Blu-ray Player / JSTOR

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    NashMakesMusic.com (Hiatus), Freelance Composer

    Logic Pro / Novation Keyboard / Virtual Instruments / Hackintosh / Ctrl-Z

Publications

What I wrote

2024. "Sound arrives at the Tudor, 1927–1931: programming, attendance and the business of cinema exhibition."

Early Popular Visual Culture 22 (1): 80-99.

https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2024.2305493.

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2020. "The Press, Society and the Coming of Sound to Birmingham."

Journal of British Cinema and Television 17 (2): 233-253.

https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2020.0521.

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2018. "The Silent Film Shortage: The Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association and the Coming of Sound, 1928–1929."

Music, Sound, and the Moving Image 12 (2): 197-216.

https://doi.org/10.3828/msmi.2018.11.


Education

What I learned

MSc – Computing – Distinction

October 2020 – September 2021

Cardiff University, School of Computer Science and Informatics

 

Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) – N3

January 2020

 

PhD – Cinema History

September 2014 – June 2018

De Montfort University, Cinema and Television History Research Centre

Part of an AHRC‐funded research project: “British Silent Cinema and the Transition to Sound”


 

MA – Directing Digital Film and Television – Merit

September 2012 – September 2013

Bournemouth University

 

BA – Film Studies – 1st Class Honours

September 2009 – July 2012

King's College London

Semester abroad: University of Toronto, September – December 2011