Simone Trubian

My experience as a product manager ranged from tooling and platforms for analytics, data technology and core company-wide web services

• Led the creation of data products including 5 data pipelines and two analytics dashboards from discovery to launch
• Led the creation from conception to launch of an analytics platform built from scratch to replace a legacy system which yielded cost savings of ca. £1 M.
• Successfully completed platform migrations, including migrating 250+ Sainsbury’s colleagues to a new analytics dashboard built in house against an immovable deadline.

SmartShop is Sainsbury’s scan and bag application available as a mobile application and on handsets on selected stores. I joined the team at a time of great expansion and helped manage the transition from successful experiment to mission-critical digital product

• Spearheaded overhaul of the infrastructure by implementing services using new tools and paradigms. This gave the engineers confidence to roll out the product from 69 to 1415 stores
• Led the recruitment drive that allowed us to replace contractors with permanent employees and scale the team whilst reducing costs. Line managed up to 9 engineers providing both technical leadership and pastoral support
• Led the effort to change and streamline ways of working including establishing working from home days and enabling my team to create a Go service template.

I joined Phrasee as a change agent during a time of rapid expansion after the company received round C investment. In my role I scaled up the team, provided technical leadership and agile/lean processes leadership to team members.I also line managed software engineers and actively contributed with great autonomy to multiple products

• Supervised an external agency based in Asia and created a technology team. Introduced Agile methodologies and best standards and practices
• I led the packaging of a Tensorflow AI natural language optimisation model as a cloud-based microservices
• Led the development and maintenance of the flagship natural language generation pipeline with a web-based REST API.

Worked on a brownfield web application for Novartis and The New York Academy of Sciences and led the development of a greenfield web application for Google Mountain View. In my time in Beyond I collaborated with teams located in London, New York and San Francisco

• Helped integrate REST services such as a search engine, messaging and video conversion to an existing Django application
• Led the development of a fan-in (inbox-based) notification system using vanilla Django components
• Defined the architecture and led the development of a new web app for Google.I developed the back-end running on a Google App Engine instance and the CMS front-end of the application.

I joined Avid as a data scientist to work on a web mining and Natural Language Processing application.

• Analysed research papers to identify the best algorithm to solve the problem.
• Led the development of the algorithm, led the testing and tweaking of the algorithm performance.
• Helped packaging the algorithm in a web application that could be accessed by the company’s clients.