Senior Engineering Manager

About me

I am a long-time technologist. From the age of eleven, I was building PCs with my father. The web fascinated me as a teenager #GenerationGeoCities. I have extensive experience in building software, coaching others and leading software teams, particularly in finance and data.

Currently, I am working as a Senior Engineering Manager for Skyscanner. I lead the squads who enable homepage, flights and explore experiences for over 100m users every month. I am accelerating company velocity as the delivery lead for company-scale initiatives, such as web monorepo and AI-native design system.

Previously, I contracted as a frontend and DevOps engineer for Scotland's leading property management CRM, in my home city of Edinburgh. By renovating their primary customer-facing UI, I helped increase sales by over 50%, and improved development team efficiency by implementing automated CI/CD pipelines.

I have been an Engineering Manager and Senior Engineering Manager at both Spotify and NatWest. I am grateful for the world-class leadership training I received . I have loved helping my teams grow, both individually and together .

Projects

Cosmic Pantry

Save the receipes you love to cook, import new ideas from the web, and step through dinner prep with ease.

Exercise My Demons

Simple exercise database search and satirical blog about a middle-aged demon.

Learning focus

Out of professional necessity or personal curiosity I am currently, or have recently been, diving into the following tech:

Professional experience

2025 - Present

Ongoing

Senior Engineering Manager, Skyscanner

Engineering Manager

UX Platform; leading the squads who enable homepage, flights and explore experiences for over 100m users every month. Accelerating company velocity as the delivery lead for company-scale initiatives, such as web monorepo and AI-native design system.

React
Nx
AWS
GitHub Actions
New Relic

2024 - 2025

14 months

Tech Lead, Frontend & DevOps, Lyles Sutherland

Contract role, extended twice. Delivered nine rounds of UI updates in fast, agile iterations. Coaching numerous employees, with emphasis on engineering managers given prior experience. Implemented three phases of CI/CD pipelines involving diving-deep into unowned legacy tech debt. Advising on tech leads on strategy and best practices given prior experience in large-scale companies.

PHP
Sass
Docker
GitHub Actions
Ansible
Bash
Symfony
jQuery

2021 - 2024

3 years

Senior Engineering Manager, Spotify

Engineering Manager

Promoted. Led delivery of royalties management web portal. Stood up several new teams and worked with peer to re-organise. Trail-blazed platform engineering practices within Financial Engeering. Presented to 600 attendees at Finance Conference in Barcelona.

Backstage
GCP
PostgreSQL
Data Studio
Jira
Coda
Contentful
Agile
Scrum
Kanban

2012 - 2020

8 years

Senior Engineering Manager, NatWest

Engineering Manager II

Engineering Manager

Multi-award winner. Promoted twice. Led technical teams of various sizes up to 25 people. Owned the technical planning and delivery of strategic employee performance management web portal for ~15,000 employees.

Mural
Jira
Pivotal Cloud
Coaching
Agile
Scrum

2007 - 2012

5 years

Senior Fullstack Engineer, NatWest

Fullstack Engineer II

Promoted. Built a range of internal web applications used by ~15,000 employees. Worked with Egnineering, Product Managers and business partners to deliver timely iterations. Designed, scoped, implemented and supported through full lifecycle.