Natalia Baltazar
Engineering Manager at Monzo Bank
United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarNatalia Baltazar is an engineering manager and founder with 11 years of experience building high-traffic web products and leading cross-functional teams across media, healthtech, and fintech. Currently at Monzo and advising/co-founding SmartShift, she blends hands-on front-end engineering experience — including notable contributions to The Guardian’s frontend UI and AMP layouts — with product-led leadership. She has scaled engineering teams, owned content and editorial tooling at The Guardian, and led product engineering at Healios and Lantum to improve clinical workforce systems. As a founder at SmartShift she translated smart meter data into a market-first tariff recommendation service that routinely saves customers 20–60% on bills. Comfortable switching between strategy, fundraising and day-to-day delivery, she pairs mission-driven focus on sustainability with practical experience shipping reliable user experiences at scale. Colleagues describe her as a connector who enjoys mentoring, building teams and turning complex domain problems into usable products.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (12)
html10
css10
sass10
javascript10
front-end-development10
google-amp10
ampl10
ui-design9
interface-design9
user-interface9
responsive-design9
react8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Aug 2015 - Nov 2018
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1441 commits, 862 PRs, 974 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Natalia primarily contributed to the front-end development of the `guardian/frontend` repository. Their work focused on enhancing the UI, including the addition of header variants, custom styling for the article pages, and implementing the new submeta design. They utilized SASS for styling, and worked on both the desktop and AMP versions of the header and overall layout of the site.
productionguardian
NataliaLKB/natalialkb.github.io
Mar 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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