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- RentierreNon Executive DirectorMarch 2025 - July 2025 (4 months)Luxury fashion, made for sharing. Discover and rent authenticated designer pieces for your perfect moment.
- VEED.IOSenior Engineering ManagerApril 2023 - September 2024 (1 year and 5 months)
- Successfully delivered a world-class AI Avatar for video creation, voted #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt.
- Led two engineering re-architecture projects for the timeline feature in our online video editing platform, resulting in improved developer and performance experience and unlocking many other product teams' roadmaps.
- Directly supported the growth of other engineering managers through coaching, mentoring and leading regular L&D sessions. Provided career development, performance management and coaching to software engineers of various seniority levels and specialisms.
- Provided leadership and strategic direction to an engineering sub-function, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Introduced new engineering initiatives and ways of working to direct teams then quickly progressed to rollout the adoption of these initiatives across the engineering org. Initiatives included BAU processes, defect and triage management, test-automation initiatives, team health check surveys, bug-bash sessions, 3rd-party evaluation and auditing, RFC documentation, and cross-functional support team rotations.
- Defined and owned deliverables across functions and was responsible for company-level deliverables. Comfortably managed estimations, prioritisation, and deadlines, such as prioritising and delivering critical projects alongside engineering quality, stability, and performance initiatives.
- Led the largest key engineering teams, working on critical areas of the company’s product - the video editor product team, the hardware and software rendering pipeline team and the AI team.
- Hired and shaped Veed's first AI engineering team, partnering with leadership peers to define the team strategy and vision.
- Sanity.ioEngineering ManagerJanuary 2022 - January 2023 (1 year)London, UKSanity: Build remarkable experiences at scale.• ▪ Led one sub-function of the engineering org, led hiring initiatives to grow the sub-function and managed organisational change, resulting in team splits and new team strategies.• ▪ Redefined deliverables for a business-critical project. Successfully led the GA release for Sanity v3, a revolutionary way for software engineers and content creators to customise their content management systems.• ▪ Collaborated with other engineering leaders to identify infrastructural and architectural investment needs• ▪ Defined and developed engineering plans and long-term strategies to define and schedule work that most effectively reach business goals.• ▪ Mentored, coached and supported engineers in their personal and professional development, managing performance reviews and career goal-setting• ▪ Set standards for multiple engineering teams to drive consistent, quality, sustainable delivery while managing expectations and increasing the visibility of work.
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Education
- Master of EngineeringThe University of Bradford2015MEng (Hons)