David Thingsaker
Engineering Manager at Ocado Technology
Leighton Buzzard, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorDavid Thingsaker is an experienced engineering manager with 12 years building and scaling web, mobile, search and voice teams, currently leading Product Discovery engineering across Ocado Technology’s UK and Barcelona centres. He specialises in Search, Recommendations and product storage, aligning engineering and product strategy to improve product findability across multi-retailer platforms. Known for developing next-generation leaders, he combines hands-on full-stack roots with pragmatic delivery planning and cross-centre mission definition. Previously he drove operational turnaround and productivity improvements as Head of Software Development in eCommerce and led platform teams in WiFi and media-sector businesses, giving him strong operational and deployment experience. Based in Leighton Buzzard, he blends technical depth in JavaScript/Node/React and backend systems with a track record of coaching, scaling teams and turning strategy into measurable delivery outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
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55answers
14questions
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Github Skills (19)
markdown9
linux8
javascript7
windows7
macos7
html6
nginx6
php6
dockerfile6
css6
docker6
laravel6
docker-compose6
text-editor6
electron6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
davidthingsaker/blogposts
Aug 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
davidthingsaker/laravel-validator
Oct 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:16 commits in 3 months
validationjqueryphpjquery-validation-pluginvalidation-plugin
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