Sam

Sam

Product Focused Engineeri Leader in London, He/him

About

London based, product focused engineering leader. I help teams work with intention and agency, and create an environment safe for innovating and building value.

Projects

2024

The cookbook industry's new digital home. Coming Soon.

Work Experience

2024 — Now
2021 — 2024
London

Lead engineer on founding team of early stage startup. Grew the engineering team to create a culture of safe innovation, ambition and ownership.

  • Defined and implemented best practices to prioritise high-velocity, future-proofed and fun delivery of experiment-led software to help find Product Market Fit and raise Series A

  • Planned and executed migration from RoR monolith to modern React architecture, maintaining feature delivery and improving velocity, consistency and product quality

  • Coached the team to improve architecture and software design, measurably improving developer satisfaction, reliability and velocity

2015 — 2020

Heading up Front End and leading full-stack product development teams inside a hospitality company undergoing digital transformation.

  • Worked with SLT and product managers to build out roadmap and strategy from business objectives, and staffed squads to deliver them

  • Worked across a multidisciplinary organisation to build trust, overhaul workflows and reduce bottlenecks to measurably improve velocity and project success

  • Line-management of up to 12 engineers from junior through lead; recruitment and technical team leadership of multiple product squads

  • Architectural planning and implementation of user-facing web- and mobile-apps and micro-service API platform, built with Ruby, Swift, and Typescript on K8s

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