Hands-on engineering leader for the UK team. I own PHP platform health, developer experience, and engineering standards across a 70-engineer distributed org. I ship production code daily alongside managing a small direct team, running code and schema reviews, and coordinating with DevOps, SysEng, and API Core teams.

What I work on

• Platform engineering: PHP 8.1+ production rollout, custom-compiled PHP binaries, functional test infrastructure (35% suite time reduction)
• Static analysis: 36 custom plugins (Psalm, PHPStan, Rector) encoding platform standards in CI
• Developer tooling: Built fli-gui, a 40k-line Electron/Angular desktop app the team uses daily
• Code review: ~400 reviews/year across the org, gatekeeper for all database schema changes
• People: Line management for up to 10 engineers; hired a graduate who now leads the platform performance team

Led three engineering teams successively across London, Buenos Aires (remote), and Vancouver (remote), balancing hands-on full-stack engineering with people management, hiring, and on-call incident response.

• Co-founded and staffed the Buenos Aires engineering office — the company’s first remote engineering team
• Ran London office operations for 15–20 engineering staff: hiring pipelines, engineering culture, facilities
• Established team norms around code quality, testing, and documentation — these later fed into the platform-wide PHP standards programme

Graduate hire. Worked across the full stack for the Client Success team, designed and ran A/B tests, performed data analysis, and contributed to establishing the Buenos Aires engineering team. Began designing what would become the company’s core customer support infrastructure within weeks of joining — the same system that remains in production nine years later.