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Summary
Senior Engineering Manager leading multi-team organisations, developing Engineering Managers, and enabling autonomous teams to deliver high-impact product and platform outcomes.
Proven track record of scaling teams and driving measurable business impact, including £12.6M+ revenue uplift and modernisation of platforms serving millions of users.
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Experience
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Trainline - Senior Engineering Manager
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September 2025 -
present
- Owned mission, strategy and delivery for Trainline’s search experience, improving how millions of customers discover and plan journeys, increasing engagement and conversion through rapid iteration and continuous experimentation.
- Developed engineering leaders, coaching senior engineers into management roles and improving how teams were led, including 4 promotions to Engineering Manager. Mentored and developed Engineering Managers to enable more autonomous delivery across teams.
- Led an organisation of 25+ engineers across 2–4 teams,, directly managing Engineering Managers and 3 Staff Engineers.
- Managed performance across teams, addressing underperformance directly while maintaining a high bar for engineering and delivery excellence, and improving overall team effectiveness.
- Introduced conversational interfaces through Trainline’s first ChatGPT-powered product, aligning multiple teams to deliver under tight timelines. Created a new way for customers to plan journeys using Trainline data, working with legal, risk and compliance to ensure safe use of customer data in production.
Trainline - Engineering Manager
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October 2021 -
September 2025
- Led a multi-year rebuild of Trainline’s core search platform (Shareable Search), replacing 9 legacy implementations with a single composable system used by millions daily, optimised for experimentation, introducing hypothesis driven development to help teams learn quickly from experiments and make better decisions.
- Drove £12.6M+ annual revenue uplift by introducing experimentation capabilities and helping teams make decisions based on real user data.
- Defined strategy, OKRs and roadmap for reusable web components, enabling teams to ship consistent customer experiences faster and with greater autonomy.
- Drove company-wide improvements to engineering quality across ~200 repositories through automated standards, governance, and clear ownership models. By sharing these approaches across the organisation, multiple teams went on to build similar dashboards and adopt the same practices.
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Earlier career in senior and lead engineering roles across companies including NearForm, Domino’s, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, News UK, AKQA and BT.