Engineering Manager

Hired to build and manage the new Service Providers Business Unit. From a single cross functional team of 1 PM, 1 Designer and 2 Engineers to 12 engineers , 4 PMs and 3 Designers across 4 product focused pods. Fostering a culture of understanding user problems through discovery, feedback and metrics, while embracing iterative/incremental delivery of great user experiences of high impact. As well as a culture of sharing and collaborating more across business units by introducing Guilds, Demos and Hangouts for all.

Software Engineer & Advisor (Contracting)

Advising startups on setting the right foundations for web sites and applications with a focus on frontend architecture, backend for frontends and automated testing. Auditing their code and putting forward proposals for improving. Frontend engineering to put the right foundations in place and re-work existing features to be performant.

Senior Frontend Engineer / Technical Lead

As the first Frontend Engineer to join this SaaS FinTech startup I set the architecture vision, ways of working and grew the team. Highlights include:

• grew frontend engineering to 12 engineers distributed across multiple squads and managed the frontend guild coordinating the implementation and delivery of shared architectural initiatives
• manged up to 4 cross functional product squads (React/Typescript/Python) ensuring they were balanced to undertake the assigned discovery, delivery and support work
• line managed 12+ engineers distributed across different teams ensuring their wellbeing, job satisfaction and growth
• designed the frontend architecture and built initial working prototypes, setting up appropriate tooling and processes ensuring high code confidence for continuous deployment via adequate testing, feature flags, alerting and monitoring
• did the initial reskin of the whole application for a consistent look and feel and ensured the different workflows were sharing the same components

Senior Software Developer

Team lead and javascript/node full stack engineer. Highlights include:

• led the development of the greenfield project Porter Digital (team of 6 engineers) using NextJS
• ran a cross team steering group to improve coding/testing standards and code sharing, this resulted in improved productivity for the content department (4 teams)
• ran a code club to help upskill engineers with focus on TDD

Lead Web Developer

I was the second developer to join this incredibly fast paced startup and witnessed it grow from a small room of people to over 150 employees. I was a key contributor to the stack and evolution of the product. As we grew I earnt the role of Lead Developer of the web team (up to 13 developers) focused on the student experience. Content and mobile first full stack fun, ensuring test driven reusable code in both PHP (Symfony2) and Javascript (ES6/Redux/React) technologies, as well as accessible HTML, living style guides (Sass/Sussy) and performance optimisation.