Summary
Melinda Seckington is an engineering leader, coach, and founder with 13 years of experience helping tech teams communicate, scale, and grow their people-first processes. She combines hands-on engineering roots with senior management roles at organisations like FutureLearn, Wikimedia Foundation, and Container Solutions to build onboarding, hiring, and feedback frameworks that stick. As the founder of Learn Build Share and organiser of community meetups, she specialises in speaker coaching and employee evangelism to turn engineers into confident communicators who boost their team’s external reputation. Melinda often steps in as fractional engineering management to set up essential structures before companies hire full-time EMs, a pragmatic approach that minimises disruption while embedding growth. Known for a practical, non-cookie-cutter style, she blends workshop facilitation, 1:1 mentoring, and operational improvements to make feedback and leadership feel natural.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Imperial College London
MSc Computer Science (Media & Knowledge Engineering), MSc Computer Science (Media & Knowledge Engineering) at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English