United Kingdom
Engineering Manager at Monzo. Over 10 years of software engineering experience across the tech stack with a focused expertise on user experience and leading teams in B2B spaces (US healthcare, biotech, banking)
- Spearheading a cross-functional squad (Backend, Mobile, Web) to transform Monzo Business Banking into a central financial hub for small businesses. - Leading the end-to-end delivery of the "Making Tax Digital" (MTD) initiative, a high-stakes 2026 HMRC mandate allowing sole traders to manage and file taxes directly within the app. - https://monzo.com/business-banking/features/making-tax-digital - Driving the roadmap for deep accounting integrations and real-time visibility tools to automate bookkeeping and reduce administrative overhead for business owners. - Previously managed the Subscriptions team, focused on building sustainable revenue streams and enhancing the value proposition for Monzo Business premium tiers. Currently serving over 800,000+ businesses
Team responsibilities: - Manage two cross functional teams: 1. one team focused on delivering the best experience for the scientists before they enter the lab 2. one team focused on growth and finding mechanisms for encouraging users throughout their activation journey. - Work closely with different product managers to plan and deliver new features for our projects and shape roadmaps - Have line managed the teams as it has gone through changes including growing and reshaping the teams - Established a team culture where my team was consistently delivering and iterating on the features that we were developing Across Engineering: - Created the frontend fellowship where people from different teams come together to discuss best frontend practices - Support the engineering efforts across the teams such as acting as a tech lead for frontend aspects for teams who doesn't have the expertise - Established the engineering progression framework for software engineers - Advocated for best engineering practices including the usage of RFCs, decision records, and standardized coding standards. Across the company: - Led the delivery of multiple milestones of our product while working across different engineering teams, marketing, customer success and sales functions - Led discussions as one of the leads for the Women at Synthace DEI group - Worked in a design partnership with one of our customers to iterate and build better features - Constantly working with different people across the organization to figure out how to better improve the ways that we work Previous experience: - Worked with our recruitment team to establish the interview process for our hiring and is in charge of our hiring of new frontend engineers * Responsibilities include (and not limited to): sourcing, interviewing and training other interviewers
* Line Managed the Core Interfaces (frontend) team (3 people) * Acted as a Tech Lead for cross functional projects while writing code to bring the project to success
* Lead a team of 8 to deliver cross functional features to improve the user journey * On top of leading the cross functional team, I run the Core Interfaces team, which is responsible for Synthace's UI and UX improvements * Define the team's roadmap according to business requirements * Coordinate with tech leads and other functional leads on cross-team projects and initiatives. Throughout my time, I have worked closely with the UI/UX team to reevaluate our entire navigational journey. Some of the major changes aspect included: 1. Defining the information architecture of the complex product 2. Broke down the entire scope into smaller projects 3. Delivered substantial changes to the entire platform including creating a design system with consistently typography, color and components Currently using Typescript, React, GraphQL, and Node.js.
As the Tech Lead and Scrum Master in Search Team working on enhancing our Search and ProviderMatch API experience, - Scaled our API to be able handle the growth to over 25% of US providers. - Launched the data pipeline to support Spanish in our consumer solution. - Guided the team through a significant upgrade to the latest Elasticsearch version. - Mentored 4 co-ops for six-month terms, fostering their professional growth.
Grew to become the Team lead for the Search Team as part of the Provider Data Management Team, - Enhanced our provider matching experience by allowing our internal consumers and third-party vendors to be able to implement search functionalities (ProviderMatch API) - Developed the data pipeline to support the Spanish version of our ProviderMatch Consumer solution. - Managed communication among our Search team with the Delivery Team and Support Teams.
Coordinated communications among engineering, QA, business analysts and clients. Monitored the status of projects, assigned tasks to teams and planned software development events. Updated internal documentations to standardize the project management work flow.
- Worked on Google Search App on iOS devices with software developers, test engineers and manual testers - Developed a test automation system using an open-source framework to simulate interactions on iOS devices using Objective C