# Jonny Neill

Head of Product Engineering | London

## Summary
I'm a creative engineering leader with big ideas and the ability to make them real. 16+ years of turning "what if" into shipped products. I thrive at the zero to one stage where vision meets execution.

I don't just manage teams, I get in the trenches. I ship features, shape product direction, and build the culture that lets great work happen. My background is unconventional: manufacturing floors to music tech startups. I see problems differently and move faster because of it.

In the AI product development era, the most valuable skill is getting ideas off the ground quickly, measuring what matters, and iterating relentlessly. That's what I do.

## Skills
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL, gRPC, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Python, AWS, GCP, Terraform, CI/CD, Shape Up, Lean Six Sigma

## Experience

### Head of Product Engineering at Planet (2025–Present)
Fan engagement platform serving the live events industry. Strategic leadership with hands on technical delivery to transform both the product and engineering culture.
- Personally delivered major product capabilities at pace while fulfilling full leadership responsibilities, operating as both strategic leader and principal level contributor
- Built a live events experience management system from the ground up, enabling the platform to support event centric fan engagement for the first time
- Designed Fan Intelligence, an AI layer enabling artist to fan connection at scale
- Redesigned the audience management experience, giving artists actionable insights into fan segments with clear indicators of where to focus attention
- Led a complete UX transformation including mobile support, modernised navigation, and a cohesive design system, turning a functional tool into a product users want to use
- Drove significant performance improvements across the platform, dramatically reducing page load times and improving reliability at scale
- Doubled team velocity through clearer direction and improved ways of working
- Introduced Shape Up methodology to engineering and product, subsequently adopted company wide, with me leading cross functional cycles that now drive business direction
- Provided clear product vision translating business strategy into actionable roadmaps, unblocking teams and aligning stakeholders
- Reinvigorated engineering culture with improved developer experience, code quality standards, and documentation practices
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### Head of Product Engineering at Vorboss (2023–2025)
B2B fibre ISP building next generation connectivity infrastructure for London businesses.
- Built an industry leading subscription management platform for connectivity products, allowing Vorboss to do in minutes what took incumbents months
- Led the Product Engineering department across multiple squads of engineers, designers, and product managers
- Established engineering practices and delivery frameworks for consistent, high quality output
- Owned product and technical strategy for both internal tooling and customer facing platforms

### Lead Software Engineer at Vorboss (2022–2023)

- Built core systems powering Vorboss's next generation ISP operations
- Led multi squad engineering tribe delivering network provisioning, billing, and order management systems
- Introduced modern stack (React, Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, gRPC) to replace legacy systems
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### Senior Platform Engineer at Freetrade (2022)
Commission free stock trading platform democratising investing for UK retail investors.
- Designed shared tooling and frameworks enabling product teams to ship without friction
- Built observability infrastructure (OpenTelemetry) for realtime system insights
- Delivered serverless solutions on GCP with Terraform managed infrastructure
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### Senior DevOps Engineer at BP (2019–2021)

- Delivered secure, self service enterprise products automating software development globally
- Built internal developer platforms serving thousands of engineers
- Championed CI/CD adoption and DevOps culture across business units
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### Senior Full Stack Developer at HSBC (2019)

- Led development of open banking solutions for HSBC Commercial Banking
- Delivered APIs and portals for third party financial integrations (CMA/PSD2 compliant)
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### Full Stack Developer at Foundry (2018–2019)
Creative software for film, TV, and games (Nuke, Modo, Flix).
- Rebuilt Flix, a collaborative storyboarding tool used by Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks
- Fullstack development with Go, TypeScript, Python, and Electron
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### Software Developer (Front End Lead) at Resonate (2016–2018)

- Led fullstack development for safety critical rail industry applications
- Built realtime data visualisation for train dispatch and signalling
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### Web Development Lead at Chain Reaction Cycles (2015–2016)

- Led frontend team for global cycling ecommerce platform
- Improved conversion rates through UX enhancements and A/B testing
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### Front End Technical Lead at CVS Health (2014–2015)

- Delivered tablet and mobile web app for patient engagement
- Hands on technical lead managing delivery and architecture
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### Manufacturing & Process Engineering (2008–2014)
Before software, I launched high volume automotive products and optimised production processes. These skills still define how I work today.
- Launching products at scale: from design through to mass production
- Lean Six Sigma: systematic process improvement and data driven decisions
- Cross functional leadership: coordinating engineering, operations, and quality
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## Education

MSc Professional Software Development - Ulster University (2015) - Distinction
BEng Engineering Management - Ulster University (2010) - 2:1 Honours