Head of Engineering,
Sep, 2021 - Present
WTX is the global marketplace for heavy-duty used vehicles. WTX takes care of the full process, from finding the vehicles to payment and fullfilment. Using technology and data to make used-vehicle dealing easier.
Actively worked with business, marketing, and product as part of the business feasibility validation.
Design and grow the engineering team from 0 to 20 people, integrating the team and implementing practices to allow the team to scale.
Foster a customer-centric engineering organisation, creating means for constant communication with business, marketing and sales.
Evangelize architecture best practices within the engineering organisation.
Closely monitor engineering team members
Launched a customer-facing marketplace and back-office that supported the company operations
Build a multi component architecture that supported the web platforms, supplier integrations and CRM integrations.
Define test, code quality, and quality assurance practices on the organisation
Architect initial TypeScript (Nest.js and Next.js) applications. Regular contributor to architecture guilds.
Implement and evangelize Domain Driven Design (DDD) practices on the core API behind the product
Work alongside product and design to develop and iterate requirements that could be validated and implemented.