United Kingdom
Wikimedia Foundation for 11 years. Before that Last.fm. I love all aspects building things that improve the status quo for users, including designing and coding. I'm as comfortable writing JavaScript as I am writing prose in a word processor. I am deeply concerned with doing things correctly. I take failures personally, which I'm working on. Ask me about my car.
Tech Lead of the Experiment Platform team. I led the design and implementation of a privacy-conscious A/B testing platform to enable teams to run A/B tests quickly. I'm currently leading the integration of GrowthBook for experiment analysis and reporting, and developing a suite of standard metrics for teams to use in their experiments.
I managed the Readers Web team (FKA Reading Web FKA Mobile Web), handling ongoing projects and participated in complex planning processes for future work. The projects included: Offline Content Generation and an improved treatment for printing pages, a new treatment for community-curated page tags, a technically and analytically complicated A/B test for SEO improvements. As well as the above, I helped my reports grow. We had regular 1:1s, we made career plans, we sought out growth opportunities, and we went through the promotion process.
I worked with – and improved! – a monolithic legacy codebase, both maintaining legacy features and helping to build new ones, using FOSS whenever possible. I did anything and everything from minor CSS tweaks to implementing a new "sign up with Facebook" flow to debugging Thrift clients.