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Work Experience

• Senior Engineering Manager, SwissBorg

  Mar, 2021 - Present

  European leader in cryptocurrency investment with 900k+ users and €1.5B+ AUM. Leading multiple engineering teams in a fully remote, fast-paced scale-up environment.

  • Scaled engineering organization from 30 to 70+ engineers; personally hired dozens across multiple teams

  • Shipped SwissBorg's Series A crowdfunding platform enabling community investment

  • Led Identity team delivering continuous regulatory compliance (PSAN) amid rapidly evolving crypto legislation

  • Drove gamification initiatives on the Loyalty side of the app, increasing user engagement

  • Currently managing 3 Engineering Managers and 5 Individual Contributors across multiple squads

  • Established Kanban practices org-wide through structured training programs

• Engineering Manager, Artos Systems

  Jan, 2020 - Nov, 202010 months

  Fast-growing SaaS company building an open protocol for ticket exchange on Ethereum. Part of the management team reporting to CTO.

  • Led a solutions team of 4 engineers focused on fast prototyping and proof-of-concept delivery for enterprise clients

  • Owned end-to-end project delivery: requirements gathering, architecture, CI/CD, production, and client relationship management

  • Created team structure, procedures, tools, and handbooks that significantly increased delivery efficiency

  • Worked directly with clients to establish requirements and maintain transparent progress communication

• Senior Back-End Engineer & Scrum Master, Artos Systems

  Oct, 2017 - Jan, 20202 years 3 months

  First engineer at the startup, accountable for all back-end development and building the engineering team.

  • Built scalable Layer 2 solution for high-volume Ethereum transactions

  • Developed highly scalable APIs in Scala using Akka HTTP

  • Established CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins

  • Grew and coached an agile development team from 1 to 6 engineers

  • Introduced and supervised adoption of Scrum and Kanban methodologies

• CTO & Co-Founder, Mobillity / Mespo

  Jun, 2016 - Oct, 20171 year 4 months

  Co-founded a fintech startup building a white-labelled financial advisor chatbot solution.

  • Raised £100K angel round at £1.8M valuation

  • Hired, managed, and coached a team of 7 engineers

  • Built product waitlist of 800+ customers, secured 100+ paying customers pre-launch

  • Selected for Startup Bootcamp FinTech London 2017 cohort

  • Stack: Play!/Scala/Akka, React, MongoDB, Kubernetes, ELK, Jenkins, GCP

• Full-Stack Developer, Earlier Experience

  Sep, 2012 - May, 20163 years 8 months

  PDX (London) — Sole developer building 4 fintech web applications end-to-end. Serli (France) — Developer apprentice working with enterprise clients including insurance and education sectors; R&D projects with RedHat and Google.

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• Tech Ronins Podcast

  - Present

  Podcast covering technical leadership topics, interviews with engineering leaders, and discussions on building high-performing teams.

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