Engineering Manager — Mobile Platforms & Server-Driven UI at Deliveroo (DoorDash) (2025-10 – Present)
- Lead a team of 8 engineers building the server-driven UI (SDUI) platform, having delivered its integration with DoorDash's systems on time — now the main front-end stack for DoorDash, Wolt and Deliveroo, used by 150+ engineers (up from ~50).
- Enable product teams to ship UI changes to production in under 2 hours — versus ~2 weeks for a standard native release — and to A/B test UI through integration with DoorDash's experimentation platform.
- Shape the team through hands-on people management — hiring a Staff Engineer, proactively managing out an underperformer, and replacing a remote contractor with an engineer from another team.
Head of Engineering, Mobile Platform at HSBC (2019-10 – 2025-10)
- Owned the architecture and delivery of the mobile engineering platform used by iOS and Android teams to build experiences deployed across all HSBC consumer markets, serving 20M+ customers.
- Led the app simplification programme end-to-end — partnering with business stakeholders to build the case and secure buy-in, working with senior ICs to define scope, and steering multiple engineering teams to deliver.
- Cut cold-start time from 4s to 2.8s on iOS and 6s to 3.5s on Android and reduced Android and iOS app size by 60%, establishing AppDynamics telemetry, performance dashboards and regression detection where none had existed, and embedding performance tests into release governance.
- Built the firm's mobile CI/CD platform — CloudBees CI (99.5% availability) and CloudBees CD release orchestration across 1,000+ repositories — and ran a Release on Demand programme that increased release frequency from monthly/quarterly to fortnightly while preserving governance and quality gates.
- Led large-scale platform engineering programmes serving 800+ mobile engineers across the bank's value-stream teams, and owned KTLO for the mobile platform underpinning the estate.
- Owned architecture governance and code-quality standards firm-wide, and partnered with architecture and product to re-platform the core mobile app on Redux — enabling the delivery of HSBC's new app in 2025.
- Grew and globalised the org from a 20-engineer London team to 100 engineers across Poland, India and China — hiring of 2 staff engineers (iOS and Android) and an engineering manager in each hub.
Technical Lead (Contract) at HSBC (2017-06 – 2019-10)
Architected and built HSBC's native (Kotlin/Swift) consumer app on a monorepo approach, scaled to 24+ markets — setting the mobile platform and engineering standards ahead of stepping up to Head of Engineering.
Engineering Lead — Mobile & Payment SDKs at Judopay (2015-09 – 2017-05)
early-stage payments startup (card acquiring & mobile SDKs)
- Led in-house and offshore teams to build customisable payment SDKs (Android, iOS, Ruby,.NET), making Judopay an official Google Pay and Apple Pay launch partner, with fully automated releases and zero production defects.
- Led mobile engineering through Judopay's acquisition talks with Mastercard, keeping delivery stable and on track throughout.
- Keynote speaker, Londroid Meetup (200+ developers): "Designing Android libraries with developers in mind."
Android Developer (Lead Consultant) at Maido (2015-03 – 2015-09)
boutique software agency
- Led the mobile implementation for Girl Effect, a multi-award-winning peer-to-peer research platform used across Nigeria, Ethiopia, Rwanda, India and Indonesia to capture video, audio and survey data in-field — engineered for resilient upload over low-power, low-connectivity conditions.
Tech Lead, Mobile Engineering at Rightmove (2011-07 – 2015-04)
the UK's largest property portal
Software Engineer at Buongiorno (2008-09 – 2011-07)
global mobile content company (now NTT DoCoMo)
