Summary
Lennon Manchester is a Head of Platform Engineering based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms for online businesses. He has progressed through hands-on engineering and technical leadership roles at Adjust and several startups, specializing in infrastructure automation, Kubernetes migrations, Terraform/Ansible provisioning, and resilient microservice architectures. Lennon excels at taking products from concept through delivery while designing the platform foundations that enable reliable, scalable releases. He pairs a pragmatic focus on performance and security with strong people leadership—coaching teams to adopt testing, Git workflows, and DevOps practices. Notably, he has a track record of being the first engineer in early-stage companies, establishing core APIs, ETL pipelines, and integrations that become critical operational systems. His background in both ops and development gives him a rare ability to bridge product priorities with robust platform engineering.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Mackenzie Presbyterian University
Portuguese, English, Spanish