Summary
Carol Mak is a Lead Consultant and full-stack frontend engineer with 11 years' experience crafting mobile-first products and UX-driven applications across retail, government, banking, media, charity and telco sectors. She has led delivery for more than 40 iOS and Android apps, blending hands-on Swift/Objective-C and Java development with modern JavaScript stacks like React Native, Ember and React. At Thoughtworks she shapes engagements, coaches continuous delivery and test-driven practices, and drives cultural and process improvements for sustainable outcomes. Carol pairs a strong engineering toolkit—CI/CD, automated UI testing, cloud platforms and container pipelines—with a designer’s eye for natural, useful user experiences. Her background in bioinformatics and first-class engineering honours underpins a data-minded approach to problem solving that surfaces non-obvious user and system trade-offs. Colleagues describe her as curious, collaborative, and relentlessly focused on delivering lean business value.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Bioinformatics, Graduated with 1st Class Honours, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Bioinformatics, Graduated with 1st Class Honours at University of New South Wales
Chinese, English, Japanese