Head Of Engineering
CurrentWorked with early-stage to series A start ups to define their business, find product market fit, build their product and grow their engineering teams, culture and process.Worked both tactically and strategically, filling the role of Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, Tech Director and CTO across Hex and our clients as needed. Responsible for technical strategy of Hex and our clients, growing the product and engineering organisations and reporting to the board.I believe a high performing team is one with happy, psychologically-safe people, that highly values communication and collaboration, that shares a vision and understands their role to accomplish their goals.- Built high performing teams from scratch for Hex and multiple start ups, via recruitment, training, goal setting and feedback. Hired Engineering Managers to manage these teams as they grew larger. These teams were crucial to the success of our start ups.- Managed the performance and delivery for these teams, both as an engineering manager and as a manager-of-managers, facilitating growth via 1:1s, training, goal-setting and strong feedback loops.- Worked as a Tech Lead for our start ups, facilitating technical discussions, designing solutions and owning and building features and fixes.- Worked and communicated directly with start ups, both at pre-sales and as an acting CTO, as well as with our start up’s customers to understand their needs, frame our work and provide the team with feedback and praise.Predominant working day tech stack includes:- PHP 7.x/8.x (Laravel)- TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Nuxt, Node- HTML, CSS (+ SCSS, BEM syntax, ITCSS, Tailwind)- MySQL / MariaDB- Google Cloud, Heroku, Vercel, nginx, Apache- git, GitHub, npm/yarn, composer- eslint, tslint, stylelint, phpcs, phpstan, webpack, vite- Docker, docker-compose- PestPHP, Jest, Vue Test Utils, Cypress- GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Travis- Ionic, Capacitor