Simon McManus

• Web Platform. Managing a team of 10, formulating multi-year roadmaps. Coordinating between 8 different teams to consolidate 9 different search widgets into a single, composable shared component. Improving lead time and ability to learn fast via experimentation. Improved annual ticket sales by £10.6 million in a single experiment.
• Platform Health. Maintaining health of ~200 repositories, automated healthechecks and dashboards to increase visibility. Improving engineering practices/processes, developer experience and lead time.
• Conversion Rate Optimisation. Managing a remote team of 6, collaborated with product, design, SEO, data science and platform teams to define team strategy, roadmap, and goals (OKRs). Introduced Hypothesis-driven development to ensure early validation and feedback. Improved experimentation capabilities and increased annual ticket sales by £12.6 million.

Led diverse cross functional, remote teams. Collaborated closely with product, design, fashion and data teams to ensure alignment and deliver products that engaged users. Developed async rituals and clear decision-making frameworks for distributed collaboration.

• DREST Core Loop. Rebuilt the DREST core loop using React Native and X-State. Worked with senior stakeholder, architecture and delivery.
• Selfie Avatar. Led team of iOS/Android and backend developers to build a pipeline transforming 2d selfies into a 3d full-body model.
• Gucci Wardrobe . Led team of 4 to build web interface that let Gucci VIPs try out clothing combinations online. Intended audience was around 3000 but after the Gucci CEO tried it out it was sent to all of Gucci’s 30,000 VIPs.