Annika Clarke
Head Of Engineering at Legend
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAnnika Clarke is a Head of Engineering based in London with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling publishing platforms and web products. She leads a 80-person engineering ecosystem at Legend, driving a central headless publishing platform and migrations to Next.js while embedding product thinking into engineering delivery. Her data-driven focus—optimising DORA, SPACE metrics and Core Web Vitals—has driven Elite-level delivery, halved cycle times and tripled Core Web Vitals health. A seasoned people leader, she has coached multiple engineers into tech-lead and management roles, defined new IC career ladders, and launched a neurodiversity network to improve inclusion. Technically fluent across Headless CMS, Next.js, Symfony and cloud infrastructure, she pairs architectural judgment with pragmatic delivery and vendor/budget stewardship. Colleagues describe her as a metrics-led, user-focused leader who turns complex migrations and organisational change into measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree IT Consultancy with Industrial Placement, Master's Degree IT Consultancy with Industrial Placement at University of Kent
Github Skills (50)
composer-plugin8
converting8
datatypes7
validation7
serde7
drupal7
deserialization6
packagist6
php6
schema6
python6
serialization6
composer5
workbench5
contentful5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
annikaC/django-pykss-styleguide
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
annikaC/drupal-pantheon-devbox
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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