Engineering manager & Tech Lead

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Overview

Engineering leader with 15 years of experience, including 7 years in engineering management and 3 in executive leadership. I have played a key role in scaling engineering organizations across multiple startups through periods of rapid growth, restructuring, and regulatory pressure.

With a background in frontend development, I bring a strong product mindset and a long-standing focus on quality, accessibility, security, and sustainable engineering practices. I have led departments of up to 35 engineers, supported due diligence and compliance efforts, and partnered closely with product, GTM, and leadership teams to deliver reliably at scale.

Feel free to reach out on LinkedIn for any inquiry. My pronouns are she/her, please kindly respect them.

Skills

Technology: HTML, CSS/Sass, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, Next.js, Rust, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Sanity

Leadership: Engineering management, executive leadership, effective hiring, team building, engineering growth, understanding of regulations (fintech and medtech)

Other skills: Accessibility, documentation (technical writing, large-scale internal docs), software testing (unit tests, Cypress), modern frontend architectures, security, agile practices

Experience

Selected impact: scaled engineering organizations to 35+ people · led multi-region reorganizations · supported due diligence and compliance initiatives in regulated environments · established engineering standards and practices

VP of Engineering @ Scilife Remote · Oct 2024 – Feb 2026

  • Reorganized the technology department from location-based silos (India/Europe) to cross-functional teams
  • Hired Engineers and Engineering Managers to accompany the department restructuration
  • Implemented engineering practices such as code reviews, unit testing and RFC processes
  • Established processes to interface with other teams (e.g. GTM) including SLAs and expectations
  • Partnered with product leadership to shape roadmap priorities through estimates, trade-offs, and capacity planning
  • Sponsored security initiatives such as internal audits and external penetration tests

VP of Engineering @ Cofenster Berlin / Hamburg · Oct 2022 – Sep 2024

  • Introduced engineering practices including code reviews, testing standards, and delivery processes
  • Organized the Product & Engineering team in cross-functional squads to improve delivery
  • Championed quality topics such as security, scaling, accessibility and compliance
  • Owned and contributed to company-wide documentation, across culture, product and engineering
  • Supported technical initiatives such as compliance and ISO-27001 certification acquisition
  • Contributed to technical planning and implementation strategy for product roadmap initiatives

Group Engineering Lead @ Gorillas Remote · Aug 2021 – Aug 2022

  • Supported the scaling of the tech organization from a dozen to over 200 people
  • Established processes and guidelines for the department (e.g. 360 feedback process, absence policies, engineering practices, IT and security guidelines…)
  • Played a key role in designing and officializing the use of the inclusive culture-add interview for all roles
  • Designed the interview process for web engineers (through which over a dozen hires took place), and helped hiring tech recruiters and group leads
  • Worked with the security team to enable relevant policies and guidelines for the department
  • Partnered with executive leadership during due diligence to assess SDLC maturity, architecture, and security practices

Lead Web Engineer @ Gorillas Remote · Jan 2021 – Aug 2022

  • Hired as one of the first engineers to build up the Product, Design & Engineering organization at a time where there wasn’t one
  • Grew the web team to over 10 engineers, whose seniority levels spread from junior to engineering lead
  • Defined and implemented the early web stack, including Next.js, Sanity, Cypress, and Fela
  • Built the foundation for reliable web delivery with strong accessibility, testing, and security standards
  • Championed diversity and inclusion at the organization level to ensure it grows in solid and healthy foundations

Web Tech Lead @ N26 GmbH Berlin · Oct 2017 – Dec 2020

  • Grew the web team from 1 to 25+ engineers, now in 4 different offices over the world
  • Built a culture of feedback, inclusion and respect, now powering a very diverse and high-performing team
  • Designed and implemented test automation and deployment pipelines enabling multiple releases per day

Senior Frontend Developer @ N26 GmbH Berlin · Sep 2016 – Sep 2017

  • Built the technical foundation for all N26 customer-facing web projects, including the marketing website, the support center, the N26 webapp, the signup process and more
  • Installed high quality practices such as security, accessibility and testability, shared with all members of the web team and beyond
  • Initiated the web docs hub and wrote most of the existing documentation (70,000+ words)

Web Developer @ Edenspiekermann Berlin · Apr 2015 – Aug 2016

  • Worked on a variety of frontend client contracts, including Red Bull projects
  • Paired with designers on a regular basis to ensure consistency between design deliveries and final implementations
  • Established authoring guidelines and practices across the organization, especially around CSS
  • Started the Edenspiekermann dev blog

Web Developer @ Crédit Agricole Grenoble · 2011–2015

  • Implemented frontend of a now-retired e-commerce platform

Side projects

Backend for an aRPG mobile game Jul 2025 – Mar 2026

  • Developed the Rust backend for game features
  • Looked after the MongoDB database, and its performance (~1,000 req/s)
  • Established observability dashboards and monitoring with BetterStack
  • Put in place a systemd watchdog to guarantee reliability and uptime
  • Optimized the anti-cheat detection system and its impact on players accounts
  • Improved infrastructure and deployment strategy (added a test server, CI/CD, DB backups, tests…)
  • Implemented a Discord bot to query and localize a comprehensive FAQ (NLP, AI)

Notable open-source projects 2014 – present

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Hobbies

Playing Geoguesser, video games and pool, hanging out with my cats, writing, cooking, and working on the occasional side project that never gets finished. 😅