Helen Emerson
Engineering Manager at Deliveroo
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHelen Emerson is an experienced engineering manager and software architect with 13 years in production engineering and over 15 years of hands-on development, specializing in scalable, microservice-based web systems on AWS. Currently leading engineering at Deliveroo in London, she focuses on sustainable, predictable delivery through agile transformation and mature team practices. Helen blends architecture-level thinking with practical delivery, mentoring teams to adopt testable, maintainable patterns across varied tech stacks. She is an active contributor to open source .NET tooling, having enhanced caching and configurable expiry behavior for the dotless Less CSS port with unit-tested improvements. Trained at QUT in Information Technology, she brings a pragmatic, people-first approach to solving complex distributed systems challenges.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
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Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
asp-net-core9
tfs9
rollback9
css8
version-control6
coredata6
stacktrace6
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dotless/dotless
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
.NET Port of the ruby Less CSS lib
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Helen contributed to the .NET port of the Less CSS lib by implementing features related to caching and expiry headers. This included creating unit tests to verify the behavior of the caching mechanism. The user also added a configuration property to control the expiry header length, improving flexibility.
cssless-cssruby
helephant/SpacedRepetition.Net
Jul 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:29 commits, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 9 months
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