Viator makes it easy to find and book unforgettable travel experiences all across the globe. Whether you're in Seoul, San Francisco, Seville, or beyond, Viator is the experiences marketplace for the savvy traveler. One app, 300,000+ experiences you'll remember. Do more with Viator.

Thriva Health | Feb 2021 - Jul 2023

Director Of Engineering

• Technology strategy creation and execution • Integral member of senior leadership team setting strategy and driving OKR execution. • Manager of Managers owning hiring, team performance and engineering culture Key Achievements: • Scaled engineering team from 10 to 40 organised into B2B2C, Platform, SRE, and ProductOps teams to accelerate delivery of Diagnostics-as-a- Service Platform. • Drove successful implementation of a B2B Diagnostics-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform, securing a £25 million contract and delivering 1.5 million PCR tests within a year. • Orchestrated the successful launch of our first React Native mobile app by leveraging external expertise to complement our in-house engineering capabilities. • Established QA strategy and function.

Palatinate Group | Dec 2019 - Nov 2020

Head Of Engineering

Key Responsibilities: • Owner of hiring, team performance, agile delivery processes and engineering culture. • Leadership and management of cross-functional development teams (frontend engineers, backend engineers, UX/UI designers). Key Achievements: • Achieved 136% reduction in total call handling time (from 110,000 to 2,062 minutes) by implementing an innovative online voucher redemption service. • 100% improvement in engineering team delivery performance through team restructuring. • Successfully led the development and implementation of a comprehensive product roadmap, driving strategic planning and ensuring timely delivery.

Hotels.com | Oct 2014 - Oct 2019

Manager, Technology e-Commerce

Key Responsibilities: • Leadership and management of 90 person cross-functional development teams (server-side & UI engineers, QA & automation engineers, DevOps engineer). • Owner of hiring, team OKR performance, agile processes, capacity planning and engineering culture. • Devised and executed technical strategy at pillar level. • Managed 7 managers. • Collaborating and influencing product, platform, and architecture stakeholders to create, plan deliver roadmap. Key Achievements: • Increased headcount with additional 70+ people in across three European locations by championing a new hiring framework. • Reduced new hire ramp-up time 50% by standardising technical onboarding process. • Increased customer email deliverability 99% by building a new email orchestration platform, which saved the company $3 million/year in call centre costs. • Decomposed a monolithic application into microservices architecture, creating vertically sliced product capability teams. • Reduced production bug regression 50% by introducing test automation and stubbing. • Achieved 25% customer booking traffic in the cloud in under 12 months by leading the migration of application and services to AWS.

Tribal Worldwide | Jan 2012 - Oct 2014

Technical Software Development Manager

Managed 25 person permanent, contract, and nearshore cross-functional development teams delivering marketing website (including iOS app) for a major global car manufacturer with a £5million annual budget. Responsible for defining architecture; development strategy; technical roadmap; development estimations oversight; performance.

Betfair | Dec 2010 - Dec 2011

Senior Technical Consultant

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Merced Systems | Nov 2004 - Dec 2010

Java Development Consultant

Responsible for architecting and developing features for sales performance management software solution including requirement gathering and solution design by consulting with clients.

Devon County Council | Dec 2003 - Nov 2004

Technical Consultant

Responsible for developing forms and connectors implementations by creating a framework for EJB services.

SMT Network Solutions | Dec 2001 - Dec 2003

Application Developer

Full lifecycle architect and developer of J2EE ticket management application including developing web-based server management admin console using open-source Webmin.

Academee | May 2000 - Jan 2001

Software Developer

Responsible for implementing course management administration application and the development of an e-learning story-boarding application.

My Education

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Master's degree, ComputationUniversity of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology | 2000

About Me

Learning a new skill as an engineering leader to help make commercial data driven decisions for personal and business growth.

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Yemi Awoyemi

Senior Technical Manager

Viator

Insightful puzzle solver, piecing together data fragments to reveal the big picture.

My Work

Data Manipulation with pandas

Joining Data with pandas

Understanding Data Science

Introduction to Statistics in Python

Understanding ChatGPT

Investigating Netflix Movies and Guest Stars in The Office

Project: Investigating Netflix Movies

Introduction to Python

Intermediate Python