Engineering Director, in charge of the Flights Booking Tribe. Booking is the last step in the Discovery->Search->Booking experience in Skyscanner. My tribe's mission is to help as many travellers searching in Skyscanner to also make a booking, either by using our own state-of-art checkout (also called Direct Booking) or by creating incentives for travellers to redirect to the Airline's / Online Travel Agent's website.- In charge of 9 autonomous squads (~70 engineers), distributed in four locations: London, Glasgow, Edinburg and Shenzhen. Managing manager of managers and principal engineers.- Full ownership of the e2e technical stack and experience. This includes Shopping/Checkout services, Payment services, Ancillary Management services and Partner Integrations- Working hand-in-hand with Product Tribe lead to define the tribe's strategy and technical vision, both on Web and App.- Steering the tribe to improve e2e cycle time by a factor of 5x thanks to stack simplifications and changes in ways of working, such as further adopting Lean Startup principles and the Marginal Gains concept.- Improved the time to enter new markets by a factor of 6x. Expanded the Skyscanner Booking offering into 38 new markets in less than 3 months.- Improved ancillary attach rate by 11%.- The Skyscanner Direct Booking checkout conversion rate currently outperforms industry standards by 50%.- Introduced company level improvements such as training all Skyscanner engineering managers about how to better use the Engineering Competency Framework for assessing performance, attending calibrations and putting forward promotions.Technical environment:Backend: Java, Node.js, PythonFront-end/App: React, Swift, JavaDevOps: AWS, Docker, k8s

Leading the Skyscanner's direct booking mobile experience strategy. Thanks to direct booking, travelers can purchase their flights directly in our app. My goal is to bring this experience to the next level, by adding a true native interface; partner branding; and defining a delightful shopping/checkout process, aligned to the latest mobile standards:- In charge of multiple engineering squads located both in London and in Sofia (Bulgaria)- Working hand in hand with the product team for defining the future of the app- In charge of defining and ensuring the product roadmap- Introducing React Native as main mobile development technology- Evolving the direct booking platform architecture for coping with mobile specific needsTechnical environment:Backend: Node.js, PythonFront-end: React Native, React, AngularDevOps: AWS, Docker

Engineering Manager for a state of art SaaS Airline Accounting solution, adopted by key players in the industry:- Currently in charge of defining an agile organization for a multi-site cross-functional team of 20 developers/analysts/QA;- Successfully ensured the implementation of new customers, including giants such as British Airways, Saudi Arabian Airlines and South African Airways;- Direct collaboration with the customer, including airline chief executives;-Lead the development of a high accuracy accounting auditing solution, handling more than 40 million events in a single report. Improved execution time by a factor of ten, using more appropriate data structures;- Proposed an innovative product leading to a new patent application;-Improved the team technical maturity, by introducing unit testing and refactoring, redefining code review rules and animating technical sessions.

Lead the development of an Airline Revenue Accounting solution from the ground up:- Designed and implemented a cross component business model, an online data acquisition infrastructure and a database access layer used by more than 60 developers, storing more than 4 billion flight coupons;- Worked as scrum master, facilitating the work of seven team members;- Defined the architecture of an in-house batch framework, applying map-reduce concepts;- Introduced new technical and functional concepts into the final application, including an innovative on-demand acquisition module;- Implemented a Web application allowing to display financial data.Technical environment : Backend: C++, SQL/Oracle, Protocol Buffer, Unix/ShellFront-end: HTLM, CSS, Javascript, XML, Amadeus HTML Kit (in-house solution)

Maintenance and product evolution of an airline electronic ticket sever.This system manages all flight ticket life cycle, from its creation until its fully usage.Technical environment : C++, SQL/Oracle, Linux/Shell, Eclipse, PHP.

Developed an Eclipse plug-in which auto-generates Java web service adapters for a federated search application.Technical environment: Java, Web Services (Apache Axis, SOAP, WSDL, XML), Eclipse plug-in development, JUnit, Clover

Developed a PHP/Mysql online exam application for students attending DELL certification programs.Technical environment : PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Apache