Employment history
GitLab (March 2025-present)
Engineering Manager
- Currently managing the Organizations team.
The Economist (September 2020-December 2024)
Engineering Manager
Product / delivery:
- Led the technical delivery of the company-wide Podcasts project on time and with no post-launch issues
- Improved team performance and velocity by refocusing engineering goals around pragmatic wins rather than “perfection”
- Led delivery of the new subscriber Onboarding webapp, which every Economist customer now experiences
- Planned and prioritize technical and product roadmap deliverables
- Supported and promoted engineer-led initiatives to build cross-team shared packages/monorepos
- Standardised our approach for building and versioning APIs and integrated this across the business
People management:
- Managed up to 7 engineers at a time and led department-wide recruitment
- Mentored 3 junior managers
- Led 8 of my direct reports to successful promotions
- Encouraged and guided mid-level engineers into ownership of DevOps initiatives
- Performance managed several engineers struggling with progression
Other / miscellaneous:
- Help run the quarterly internal Hackathon and personally host regular internal “Ignite” talks
- Co-run a monthly Engineering Management meetup called ManageOps
The National Lottery Community Fund (March 2017-August 2020)
Senior Developer
- Architected new software stack from scratch and deployed it to the cloud (AWS)
- Worked to support the incremental transfer of legacy webapp into the new stack (eg. by partial DNS migration via CDN)
- Rebuilt the main product with a certified-accessible, pen-tested webapp which increased user applications, integrated with Salesforce and outperformed the legacy version by a significant factor
- Successfully passed Government Digital Service’s “service assessment” ahead of launch
BBC (June 2015-March 2017)
Creative Technologist
- Technical lead for an internal innovation team
- Self-taught myself internal BBC systems to deploy webapps and pass internal security/policy review of all our output
- Worked heavily with AWS’s networking tools, eg. setting up subnets and VPCs for our infrastructure.
Guardian News & Media (August 2010-June 2015)
Client-Side Web Developer (2010-2011); Developer Manager (2011- 2014); Senior Developer (2014-2015)
- Led the front-end development of the Guardian’s then-new website – we improved loading times by a factor of 4, to an audience of 100m unique users.
- Helped launch the Guardian's first internal design system
- Invited to Facebook’s HQ to collaborate on building and shipping the Guardian/Facebook app, whose frontend I built
- Extensive experience interviewing and hiring, as well as managing multiple engineers