Engineering Manager
People and team health
- Achieved 100% developer retention across all teams through individual growth plans, regular feedback and engineer-owned team rituals.
- Coached two engineers into Senior roles and supported a QA analyst transitioning into product management through targeted coaching and stretch assignments.
- Established a structured hiring process for a new role, defining its scope, job description and interview ownership.
Delivery and outcomes
- Launched a new customer-facing product in 10 months by building the team from scratch and sequencing scope against launch risk.
- Shipped major releases across two products, including features that opened a new market, through quarterly planning, release previews and sprint reviews.
- Coordinated penetration testing and introduced AI tooling spend guardrails to control risk and cost.
Strategy and cross-functional leadership
- Co-owned the roadmap with product and design, using estimation and confidence-vote sessions to sequence broad initiatives.
- Moved a winning hackathon prototype into the official roadmap within one week and delivered product features within two months.
- Aligned scope, estimates and dependencies with platform and adjacent teams across Europe and the US to protect launch priorities.