Sharah C

Associate Software Engineer

Feb 2024 - Oct 2025 • 1 yr 8 mos

Software engineer contributed to the design, development and delivery of digital customer experiences within a 9-person, cross-functional squad, supported backend and some frontend development as needed, with significant ownership of key engineering deliverables for the Sky Betting and Gaming brands before departure. Responsibilities: • Developed and maintained backend and frontend components and containerised services. • Collaborated with Product Owners to translate business requirements into technical solutions. • Contributed to Agile ceremonies, continuous improvement and fostering shared squad ownership of goals. • Managed tickets, technical decisions and dependencies through Jira and Confluence respectively. • Ensured delivery met technical, functional and compliance requirements. • Participated in exploratory work, story pointing, and technical spikes. • Fostered alignment on system processes by producing flowcharts, documenting dependencies, and proactively clarifying unknowns. • Upheld engineering standards through thorough code review in accordance with our SDLC to produce DRY, effective, secure, and maintainable code.

Agile Delivery Lead

Aug 2020 - Feb 2024 • 3 yrs 6 mos

Multi-squad Agile Delivery Lead for customer-facing digital platforms and business-critical software, bridging engineering, product and leadership to drive clarity, manage dependencies and enable predictable delivery with minimal disruption to flow. Key Achievements: • Recovered a critical football sportsbook rebuild by surfacing hidden risks and dependencies, restoring delivery flow, improving stakeholder communication and re-baselining plans around the highest-value priorities, enabling a successful and timely product release. • Delivered a pivotal front-end use case powered by a new metadata feed within a complex, interdependent programme, leading governance forums to manage dependencies and actively mitigate data-loss and latency risks. Responsibilities: • Led end-to-end release management, including planning, dependency coordination and post-release validation to support predictable, high-quality releases. • Coached squads on Agile practices and guided teams through full SDLC delivery using Scrum and Kanban. • Facilitated sprint ceremonies, architecture discovery forums and cross-team dependency sessions to elaborate, sequence and unblock delivery. • Improved delivery flow through proactive RAID management, embedding lightweight governance and maintaining clear, consistent stakeholder communication.