Steve Bennett
Engineering Leader
Engineering leader with over 15 years of experience in engineering management, with a background in eCommerce, enterprise services, and fintech. I aim to empower teams to create innovative and scalable solutions that enhance the customer experience and drive business value.
Work History
Wireless Logic
Chief Software Engineer
Group lead for Software Engineering teams, practices, tooling and delivery processes.
Stash
Director of Engineering
Responsible for UK Engineering, Operations Tooling, Identity Verification, Authentication, User Profiles, Subscription Tier Management and Fraud prevention.
Alfresco
VP Engineering
Leading a team of 70+ Engineers to deliver the Alfresco Digital Business Platform, which brings together Content, Process and Governance Services to enable some of the worlds largest enterprises to improve the efficiency of their businesses. The Platform Engineering team is accountable for delivery of the platform and services on which applications (both in-house and external) are built.
Marks and Spencer
Engineering Manager
Engineering manager looking after 16 developers in the shopping (marksandspencer.com) area of M&S Digital. Responsible for pastoral care, career development and mentoring of primarily back-end developers working on applications supporting the marksandspencer.com platform.
eBay
Software Development Management
Agile team lead, with line management responsibility for 6 engineers. Active coder, practicing TDD, ATDD, and pair‐programming. Delivering software through a mixture of Scrum, XP and Lean engineering. Acting as team coach for people development, and process improvement through introspection and adaptation.
Yell
Technical Lead
Technical team lead for agile product delivery team with line management responsibility for 3 engineers and Scrum team delivery. Accountable for Yell.com releases, managing multiple team integration, deployments and experiential testing.
BT
Software Developer
Graduate software developer building Windows client applications using C#, Java and Eclipse Rich Client Platform. Managed summer internship students investing the development of Android apps using Agile and XP techniques.
Community
Engineering Managers Slack
An open community for Engineering Managers, Team Lead, Tech leads or any other role which involves managing people working in technology.
Lead Dev London Meet-up
I’m one of the hosts of the London Lead Dev Meet-up. We aim to deliver at least 4 meet-ups per year with speakers talking on topics relevant to Engineering Leaders of all levels.
Contact
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