Team systems
Clear ownership, useful rituals, visible risks, and a management style that gives engineers room to lead.
Profile
Engineering leadership shaped by finance, startups, product work, and code.
I am a senior engineering manager at UserTesting. I lead two teams across a high-impact area of the platform, working through legacy systems, modern services, front-end applications, and the operating habits that make teams dependable.
Technical direction
Architecture choices tied to delivery outcomes, maintenance cost, operability, and the reality of the codebase.
Product context
Commercial judgment from finance and founder experience, applied to software decisions that have to survive contact with users.
A non-linear route into engineering leadership.
I spent nine years in private client finance before retraining as a software engineer through General Assembly. Since then I have worked in startups and scale-ups, contracted briefly, co-founded Kytra, and grown from backend engineer into senior engineering management at UserTesting.
That route affects how I work: I care about healthy teams, but I also care about technical detail; I care about delivery, but not at the expense of the system becoming harder to change.
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Selected Milestones
- Finance Killik & Co and Sarasin & Partners, advising and managing private client investment portfolios.
- Engineering General Assembly, Captain AI, Drover, Farmdrop, and full-stack product engineering in Ruby, Rails, Angular, GraphQL, Kafka, and supporting services.
- Founder Co-founded Kytra, an investing assistant for self-directed investors, and worked directly across product, customers, engineering, and commercial constraints.
- Leadership Senior engineering manager at UserTesting, leading two teams through platform, product, and architecture work.
Contact
Useful conversations start with context.
I am interested in engineering leadership, software delivery, architecture modernisation, product teams, and the practical work of helping engineers grow.