A significant proportion of my role enables me to do what I am good at; helping and supporting people in achieving their goals. This varies between all sets of people that I interact with and can be everything from supporting line reports in their career growth, when they have problems and troubles or completing administration to enable them to do their job as quickly as possible. Resourcing and supporting projects then can vary from ensuring we have the right people on the right project, talking through programmes around their requirements and suggesting engineering enhancements on how to get their requirements across the line. In terms of engineering strategies and supporting the engineering leadership team, this can be anything that is required. Supporting the growth of engineering through changing recruitment strategies, figuring out the skillsets of engineers and sourcing applications to support their growth has been just some of the items I have tackled. The work I get involved with is varied and involves a lot of helping people with their problems. As an engineer, your sole purpose is to solve the problems of the business that they have provided for you. As a Lead Engineer, I have taken my technical ability to solve problems and get to apply it to people in supporting their wellbeing, thoughts and dreams which is exceptionally satisfactory.

In my role as a technical lead and senior engineer, I solutionised, created and lead the team to continue creating a component library. For those, who don't know what that is, it's a front end collection of components that mean that we have consistent designs and reuse across the websites. Specifically, in the area of merchandising for B&Q and Castorama websites, it means consistency across all the visual elements that people see, while creating clear templates for merchandisers to use to create clear web pages for the website. The part I am most proud of though is that many different component libraries and design systems have come and gone within the code base of Kingfisher and yet after many years this is still around. What I am even more proud of was the team that we developed. Despite being spread over two countries, have roots in several different backgrounds, we created a super friendly and engagement atmosphere. Several team members had promotions and excelled during their time in the team which included the pandemic. It was my personal first step into support people as well as technology and enabled me to make the decision to step into the job that I have now.