Lyndsay Walsh
Swindon,Wilt
Summary
Dynamic and strategic professional with expertise in team building, leadership, and iterative software development. Demonstrates a customer-focused approach and proficiency in web application development, underpinned by agile leadership and scrum mastery. Skilled in effective delegation and team development, with a strong emphasis on strategic thinking to drive project success.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Senior engineering manager
The LEGO Group
London
02.2023 - Current
- Enhanced team productivity by implementing Agile software development methodologies.
- Managed cross-functional teams for successful project execution.
- Collaborated closely with UX designers to ensure user-friendly interfaces.
- Fostered positive work environment, improving the team's morale and productivity.
Senior UI developer
Maersk
Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead
10.2016 - 01.2023
- Successfully led several cross functional teams of up to 8 members.
- Coaching and mentoring including turning round poor performers.
- Key contributor to establishing a modern component library for use across the organisation.
- Established an experimentation mindset within teams, often leading to early adoption of new technologies, including (but not limited to) using GitHub actions, LaunchDarkly, creating web components that are framework agnostic.
- Active contributor to Frontend community of practice.
- Creating and owning a technical roadmap to align project practices with the overall architectural strategy.
- Created epics and stories from user requirements.
- Developed and encouraged a testing first mindset within teams.
- Championing accessibility within the team and with the wider company.
- Recruitment and evaluation of applicants.
- Line management responsibilities including career guidance.
- Encouraged a devOps mind set including the importance of real time monitoring within the team.
Lead software developer
Leighton / British Airways
Durham / London
03.2012 - 09.2016
- Worked with Leighton's biggest client - British Airways.
Invited by the client and relocated to the South East to be on client site. - Line manager to 6 Leighton team members.
- Coordinate and lead a team of over 60 developers in multiple locations.
- Code review code to ensure that it's of the best quality for go live.
- Created an angular library for design standards to ensure minimal duplicated styles.
- Ensure where possible that code can be created as reusable angular components for quicker future development.
Education
BSc Web development - Computing
Teesside University
Middlesbrough 09.2002 - 07.2005
Skills
- Team building
- Leadership
- Iterative software development
- Customer-Focused approach
- Scrum mastery
- Web application development
- Agile leadership
- Effective delegation
- Team development
- Strategic thinking
Affiliations
- Gardening
- Driving
- LEGO building
- Hiking
Timeline
Senior engineering manager
The LEGO Group
02.2023 - Current
Senior UI developer
Maersk
10.2016 - 01.2023
Lead software developer
Leighton / British Airways
03.2012 - 09.2016
BSc Web development - Computing
Teesside University
09.2002 - 07.2005
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