Babagana Zannah is a solutions-driven Head of Engineering with 9 years of experience building and delivering high-reliability web, eCommerce, real-time and mobile systems across Nigeria, Egypt, the UK, Canada and Germany. He combines hands-on software craftsmanship with strategic product leadership, having led engineering teams at Sainsbury’s, SportScheck and Beacon to improve scalability, extensibility and time-to-market. Skilled in architecture, platform migrations and FinOps integrations, he has repeatedly reduced operational overhead and accelerated development velocity through pragmatic technical and process changes. Babagana pairs an MSc in Software Engineering and an Executive MBA with a proven talent for translating business strategy into measurable engineering KPIs and customer-facing features. Notably, he increased rapid development efficiency by 200% during a platform migration and maintains a global, culturally aware leadership style that fosters inclusive, high-performing teams.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, Executive MBA at Quantic School of Business and Technology
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, First Class, BSc (Hons), Computer Science, First Class at Middlesex University
MSc, Software Engineering, Distinction, MSc, Software Engineering, Distinction at University of York
Contributions:12 PRs, 20 pushes, 5 branches in 15 days
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Babagana Zannah - Head Of Engineering at Sainsbury's