Eilidh Dixon

Overview

I lead iOS apps at Magnet Grid in Belfast. Led the migration of 39 services to Core Data. Took crash-free sessions from 97.8% to 99.9%. Before that: Deloitte and Wise.

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Aug 2023 - Present
   Magnet Grid · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Belfast, UK
   • Mentored 11 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 37 minutes to under 4.
   • Cut p99 latency on the iOS services from 420ms to 107ms.
2. Principal Engineer

   Dec 2019 - Aug 2023
   Deloitte · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Belfast, UK
   • Led or co-led 25 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
3. Staff iOS Engineer

   Jul 2016 - Dec 2019
   Wise · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Belfast, UK
   • Moved 78% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
4. iOS Engineer

   May 2014 - Mar 2016
   Accenture · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Belfast, UK
   • Took crash-free sessions from 96.7% to 99.9%.
   • Reduced cloud spend on iOS by 34% in two quarters.
5. iOS Engineer

   Dec 2011 - May 2014
   Intercom · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Belfast, UK
   • Moved 77% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Took crash-free sessions from 96.3% to 99.8%.

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Education

1. UCL

   BSc, Mathematics
   2004 - 2007