London, England, United Kingdom
Engineering Leader and professional coach with a passion for transforming high-ambiguity challenges into scalable, high-impact technical solutions. Currently at Google, focusing on bridging the gap between complex engineering requirements, AI-driven innovation, and strategic business goals. Specialized in organizing moving parts into cohesive roadmaps. As the industry shifts toward an AI-first paradigm, focus on ensuring that technical teams don’t just adopt new tools, but integrate intelligent automation into the core of the product lifecycle to drive efficiency and user value. Believer that technical excellence is built on a foundation of trust; committed to fostering inclusive, agile environments where engineers feel empowered to challenge the status quo, experiment with emerging technologies, and perform at their best. Driven by boundless energy, an optimistic outlook, and a relentless desire to help teams solve the unsolvable. Core Competencies *********************** Strategic Thinking and Planning Organisation, Innovation and Problem Solving Team Development, Coaching, Mentoring Leadership and Interpersonal skills Technical Expertise and Leadership Agile Delivery and Product Management Software Architecture and Design Product Development & Management Portfolio, Programme and Project Management Cross-functional Collaboration Adaptability and leading through change
Engineering leader of a team of engineers in Web on Android team, responsible for System Health of WebView product - Building a high-performing and motivated team focused on ensuring the performance, resiliency, and stability of the Android WebView, which powers millions of Android apps globally - Partnering with Android SRE to proactively monitor, prevent, and resolve potential outages, safeguarding WebView reliability. - Committed to delivering high-quality, stable and performant developer and end-user experience while empowering the team to thrive in a dynamic environment.
Leading a team of engineers in Meta Central Privacy organisation, primarily focused on Sensitive Data across Meta. - Building the ability to monitor and govern the flow of sensitive data in Meta across its lifecycle - Establishing team identity by defining a team charter and enabling the team to create its mission/vision while also ensuring their adaptability to the constantly changing landscape of privacy. - Managing cross-functional collaboration within and outside of central privacy organisation to ensure a watertight governance and the protection of sensitive data
Leading execution, delivery and technical excellence of two major WhatsApp programs (WhatsApp Support Experiences with 3+ Engineering teams, Customer Operations, Content & Localisation, Markets, Design and UXR teams, WhatsApp Privacy Infrastructure with 30+ WA Engineering teams, Privacy Operations, Legal and Compliance partners) -Delivery of multi-team high profile projects such as redesigning and simplifying WhatsApp Help Center for improved user experience and simplified navigation, planning decommission of deprecated infrastructure of In-app Chat Support -Improving Privacy Infrastructure for WhatsApp, both providing engineers an easy and burden-free experience to produce private-by-design features and also keeping WhatsApp private and complaint by building tools and automation to discover where WhatsApp data is stored and processed and assure safeguards that user data is safe and protected -Organising an online 3 day summit in 2021 to bring over 300 people together with 45 presenters across time zones, taking it from initial idea to execution in just 3 months to drive alignment in the support space -Upskilling engineers by providing coaching, mentoring and trainings like Project Management Essentials, creating content and self-serve “training-in-a-box” to further scale the initiatives -Facilitating the engineering teams in building multi-half plans with realistic timelines, instilling structure into complex multi-team roadmaps for rigorous risk management, streamlined communication, and efficient progress tracking. -Formed Support Pillar and established governance, communication, and decision-making processes, brought clarity and facilitated the alignment of cross-functional roles and championed planning and retrospectives to improve the processes
Managing team of 8 full stack engineers responsible for Desktop Clients for MaXUC ( Microsoft’s Unified Communication Platform for SMBs), built with Java, React and Electron.js -Driving technical strategy and execution for the MaXUC product security and privacy resulting with increased customer trust and regulatory compliance -Owning Security Product Owner role for MaXUC Product group, implementing thread modeling, prioritizing and addressed security and licensing gaps -Planning and executing Azure DevOps migration of the product -Upleveling org health by creating a culture of belonging, accountability and psychological safety -Building a development plan with each employee, with regular check-ins to providing feedback and coaching hence team members were enabled and supported for their growth -Diversity and Inclusion leader for Azure For Operators Organisation
Managing a team of globally distributed 10 full stack engineers accountable for building high volume operations, Public APIs and Data Licensing, using Python, React, GraphQL -Responsible for strategy, road mapping, prioritisation, software architecture, technical excellence, continuous improvement, wellbeing and performance of the team -Delivered a robust Bulk Operations Platform that facilitated substantial improvements in productivity and reduction in labor costs for Customer Success teams -Revamped Public APIs by implementing comprehensive metrics, intuitive dashboards, and enhanced visibility into response time, error rates, latency, and up/down times, supported by effective alerting mechanisms, resulting in timely and informed decision-making -Improving onboarding experience for new joiners in a remote environment -Diversity and Inclusion liaison for UK workforce
GE Power Engineering Leader in Turkey, responsible for managing engineering teams, including full stack engineers, QAs, Architects and TPMs, with a total number of 22 globally distributed individuals, delivering GE Power Digital Engineering products -Delivering Plant Cost Estimation Product, enabling $3.2M margin improvement by simplifying bid preparation process for commercial engineering teams and increasing competitive advantage -Delivering Simplified Cost Out Tracking Tool, one of only nine horizontal products across GE, enabling tracking of 12K cost out projects, with an estimated annual general ledger impact of $1.6M -Planning and delivery of SPEC tool, reducing scrap ratio hence enhancing productivity for additive manufacturing -Transitioning to fully remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic whilst maintaining team performance and cross team collaboration in a rapidly changing business environment -Evangelized agility and helped with agile transformation of the organisation -Assisted individuals in addressing performance challenges and grow team members into leadership roles -Active contributor for Women in Tech and Girls Coding voluntary initiatives
- Responsible for wing-to-wing execution of business critical, cross functional projects delivered across GE Digital Turkey Technology Center, to deliver high quality outcomes to internal and external customers - Defining execution plan and approach based on project scope, expected timeline and available budget/resources - Work with global team to coordinate day-to-day execution as per outlined plan
- Responsible for delivery of Scott, Services and Venture Product - Acting Scrum Master and Technical Product Manager of the team, enabling collaboration between PMO and Eng teams - Technical leader, responsible for architecture and design of high-performance GE Gas Power Cost and Value products