Sébastien Axinte
Senior Engineering Manager at Backbase
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorSébastien Axinte is a Senior Engineering Manager based in London with 11 years of engineering leadership and over 15 years of hands-on web development experience, known for turning front-end modernization projects into measurable business outcomes. He has led cross-functional Growth squads at Busuu—coordinating backend, web, and mobile teams—to improve top-of-funnel metrics, enable multi-platform experiments, and introduce company-wide hiring and personal development processes. Previously he drove high-traffic redesigns and migrations (including major RTL and Busuu web projects) and improved performance and deployment autonomy by introducing CMS, unit testing, and ES6 across platforms. Comfortable switching between strategic leadership and technical decision-making, he’s also stepped in as interim Head of Engineering and coached other managers, showing a pattern of scaling teams and practices beyond his immediate remit. An early career emphasis on UX, prototyping and cross-browser problem solving informs his pragmatic approach to balancing refactor work with product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
French, English, Romanian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
127reputation
7kreached
10answers
5questions
Github Skills (57)
markdown10
cms10
silverstripe10
wiki-engine10
doctrine10
nette10
smarty10
php10
yaml10
extensible10
site-generator10
contao10
prestashop-module10
twig10
grav-plugin10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
saxinte/angular-js-shopping-cart
Oct 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 6 pushes in 10 months
saxinte/rem-to-px-revisited
Apr 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
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