Benjamin
Augustin
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Engineering leader with a people first approach to leadership and focus on Developer Experience (DevEx). Driven by the values of Exploration, Openness, and Care, I have spent the last 5 years of my career dedicated to DevEx and leadership, particularly in supporting and empowering mobile engineers. Using my 10 years of experience as a mobile engineer and leadership experience enables me to bridge the gap between technical excellence and exceptional user experiences. Currently focusing on engineering leadership, mobile DevOps, and consulting, I leverage my expertise to drive organisational success.
Experience
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Leading and scaling mobile Engineering at ATG.
Key Themes:
Scaling Mobile Teams • Mobile-Centred DevOps • Theatre Ticketing • Greenfield Initiatives
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Scaled the mobile engineering team from 8 to 80 engineers, creating mobile platform support and enabling efficient workflows. Implemented automated releases, observability platforms, cloud builds, remote caching, and more.
Case StudyKey Themes:
Scaling Mobile Teams • Mobile-Centred DevOps • Continuous Deployment • Mobile Platform Teams -
Conducted a 6-week consultancy, including stakeholder interviews, code reviews, and process analysis. Developed strategies to enhance the volume and quality of mobile team outputs.
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Delivered a 2-week consultancy to identify the best cross-platform mobile technology for them in this context, enhancing operational efficiency through curated interviews and solution analysis.
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Led the Android development team for the greenfield relaunch of The Times Digital Experience. Results included a significant increase in articles read per visit, unique visitors, and Net Promoter Score.
Case StudyKey Themes:
Frontend Android engineering • Product Strategy • Product Design • Agile Delivery -
Developed Android and Chromecast experiences with native video playback supporting DRM, and seamless content-ad transitions.
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Worked on projects including the Hudl Tablet shopping experience, Hudl 2 AOSP modifications, and child-safe application development. Conducted R&D for a mobile till/payment system using Hudl 2 tablet and Bluetooth card reader.
Case StudyKey Themes:
Product Discovery • Frontend Engineering • Agile Delivery • Product Design -
Movie streaming application developement. User experience across mobile, tablet and TV
Academics and Training
Decided to take this 6 months leadership training program to level up my leadership style and capabilities.
Through the coaching and training I cemented my values, improved my coaching capabilities and learned how to lead with authenticity.
This allowed me to become more confident in Driving with values and becoming a people first leader and coach.
Key Themes:
People first Leadership • Introspection • Driving with values • Coaching
Multi-profession computer engineering courses. Covering all areas of information technology applications (industry, management and science), with emphasis on engineering activities, modelling and integration of complex systems.
Activities and societies:
Vice President of the Comics Library Club since 2010, member since 2009.Hobbies
Lover of storytelling in all its forms from graphic novels to musicals. I enjoy well crafted stories and the impact they can have on people.
French/European style Bande Dessinée has a special place in my heart. I was part of an association during University and helped organise a yearly convention with Authors coming to showcase their latest creations
When I want to play around with tech, I enjoy tinkering with my own self-hosted services. I have my own server running and regularly experiment with various means to avoid relying on the Tech Giants solutions.