Summary
Phil Helm is a product-minded Staff Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience building high-performance, SEO-driven web products and engineering teams. He has led complex platform migrations and multi-brand component libraries that delivered measurable business impact—over £3m annual uplift—by enabling marketing and content teams to self-serve personalization, A/B testing and content launches. Technically fluent across Node.js, React, Kubernetes and edge-configured CDNs, he combines hands-on delivery with stakeholder-facing roadmap leadership and line management. Based in Sheffield, he brings a mathematician’s rigor from a BSc in Mathematics to data-driven decisions using BigQuery and analytics pipelines, and is known for instilling a lasting culture of web performance and cross-discipline collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at Queen Mary University of London
A Levels, Maths, Politics, Economics, AS Further Maths, A Levels, Maths, Politics, Economics, AS Further Maths at Notre Dame High School and Sixth Form College
English