Saffaanh Soobratty
Engineering Lead at Starling Bank
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSaffaanh Soobratty is an Engineering Lead with a decade of experience driving reliability, regulatory assurance, developer experience, and customer remediation efforts at Starling Bank, where he currently manages and mentors a diverse group of 20+ engineers across five teams. He blends hands-on development with strategic leadership—serving as technical and release approver—to balance feature delivery, technical debt reduction, and operational resilience. Saffaanh has advanced from junior developer roles into engineering leadership, giving him practical empathy for engineers at all levels and a knack for building growth-focused teams. Based in England, he prioritises collaboration with product and stakeholders to align engineering initiatives with business and compliance goals, and he keeps coding to stay close to the technical challenges his teams face.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems Integration Information Technology, Computer Systems Integration Information Technology at University of the West of England
Github Skills (36)
typescript10
angular-cli10
cli10
angular10
webpack-dev-server9
generator9
extend9
bank9
unit-test8
npm8
ng7
ngxs7
api-client7
seed7
javascript7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DetectiveQuack/quill-hashtags
May 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:3 pushes in 4 years 6 months
quillrich-text-editorrich-texteditortext-editor
pgrtest/redesigned-spork
Feb 2019 - Apr 2023
Test repo
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
test-repo
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