Graham Pugh

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Senior Engineering Manager at Kite Bio · VS Code extensions, compilers

Kite Bio
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
10+ years experience
University of Glasgow
English
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Overview

Senior Engineering Manager at Kite Bio, focused on developer tools. Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 38 a week to 4. Grew the developer experience team from 4 to 17 engineers. Home cook with strong opinions about biryani.

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  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Working sessions on TypeScript
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Second opinions on Rust decisions
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  • Crypto token projects

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Skills
AirflowVS Code extensionsTypeScriptcompilersCLI designRust
HiringHiring for a role
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5 frontend engineer roles open on the developer experience team in London

Role
Frontend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$188k-$254k
Team
Developer experience, 4 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Production experience with CLI design Production experience with Rust Comfort with ambiguity
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp £91k-£140k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

London, UKcli designvs code extensionsrust
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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Dec 2025 - Present
    Kite Bio · 10 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Moved 68% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Wrote the VS Code extensions service that now handles 80 million requests a day.
  2. Staff Software Engineer
    May 2023 - Dec 2025
    Meta · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Moved 94% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Software Engineer
    Aug 2020 - May 2023
    Barclays · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Moved 83% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Software Engineer
    Dec 2017 - Aug 2020
    Meta · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Moved 62% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Wrote the Rust service that now handles 56 million requests a day.
  5. Software Engineer
    Oct 2016 - Dec 2017
    Amazon · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Shipped 19 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
    • Moved 79% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. University of Glasgow
    MA, Computer Engineering
    2019 - 2021
  2. Queen's University Belfast
    BSc, Computer Engineering
    2013 - 2016

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