Curriculum Vitae

• Leading the engineering direction for the Growth department, guiding the team on strategic product decisions and technical implementation
• Collaborating closely with the VP of Growth to transform strategic ideas into executable plans and establish product market fit in emerging markets
• Pioneering AI adoption to accelerate development workflows and enhance software quality
• Actively contributing to product development across multiple technologies: Scala, PHP, and TypeScript (React)
• Providing technical consultation and guidance for data warehouse architecture improvements using dbt and modern ELT tooling

• Directed a diverse engineering team of 7 full-stack engineers across junior to staff-level roles
• Played a key role in designing and implementing our internal data warehouse infrastructure
• Introduced Apache Superset as our analytics platform, enabling self-serve data insights across the organization
• Established and launched our engineering blog, showcasing technical expertise and attracting talent
• Mentored team members in functional programming principles and lean product development methodologies

• Led development and successful launch of Nurture — an innovative "Airbnb for nurseries" product built with NextJS, AWS Lambda, CDK, DynamoDB, and NodeJS
• Built and scaled the engineering team for our Growth department from the ground up
• Empowered product teams with Mixpanel analytics capabilities through dedicated training and adoption

• Started the Growth team at Famly with our head of Growth, to drive a transition from sales-led to product-led
• Shipped critical features in our product-led journey, such as in-app self-serve purchasing options
• Set the technical direction to start making an impact with a small team
• Mentored junior members on the team and set team processes

• Designed and implemented high-impact features including a reimagined settings interface, navigation system, in-app video chat, and staff scheduling tool
• Specialized in TypeScript and React development, building cross-platform applications with Capacitor
• Collaborated across multiple feature teams, gaining broad domain expertise in early childhood education software
• Enhanced CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and CircleCI, improving deployment reliability and team velocity

Full stack feature development in Django and React. Worked on several key features for an internal marketing optimisation platform and got to work closely with the data science team.

• Masters thesis: Multilingual Hate Speech Detection using bidirectional LSTMs
• Strong focus on algorithms and NLP

Technical

• TypeScript, React, Scala, PHP, Python, SQL, NodeJS, Django, Docker, SQL (Postgres, MariaDB, MySQL)
• AWS: CDK, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and more
• REST and GraphQL APIs (Apollo)
• CI/CD: Github Actions, CircleCI

Leadership & Analytics

• Engineering team leadership and talent development
• Modern data stack expertise (Mixpanel, dbt, Superset, Metabase, Evidence, Airbyte)
• Data-driven experimentation and growth strategy