Noel Markham
Senior Engineering Manager at Xebia
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNoel Markham is a Senior Engineering Manager based in the UK with over a decade of hands-on experience evolving into leadership roles across startups and scale-ups, including 47 Degrees, Depop, Habito and now Xebia. He blends deep engineering roots—having shipped server and backend systems since his early career at UBS and Playfish—with pragmatic team leadership, coaching engineers through acquisition-driven transitions. Known for stepping up from lead engineer to manager during 47 Degrees' integration into Xebia, he excels at aligning technical strategy with delivery in fast-changing environments. A Manchester Computer Science graduate, Noel pairs long-term system thinking with an appetite for adapting practices to product needs, often favoring backend reliability and developer productivity improvements that quietly reduce operational friction.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (72)
letter10
shapeless10
functional-programming10
scalacheck10
modular9
scalaz9
linux9
android-launcher9
extensible9
algebra9
android-open-source9
tagless-final9
react9
scala9
sbt9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
noelmarkham/dotfiles
Oct 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
noelmarkham/scalaexchange-2015
Feb 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 9 months
approachfunctional-programmingpurely-functional
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