Heather Mackenzie

Overview

Staff Frontend Engineer at NatWest, focused on web frontends. Led the move of 171 screens to a shared React component library. Most at home with CSS and web performance.

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Experience

1. Staff Frontend Engineer

   Jul 2024 - Present
   NatWest · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Reduced cloud spend on web by 33% in two quarters.
   • Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Wrote the Kubernetes service that now handles 65 million requests a day.
2. Frontend Engineer

   Dec 2021 - Jul 2024
   Microsoft · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Wrote the Next.js service that now handles 43 million requests a day.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 23 minutes to under 5.
3. Frontend Engineer

   Mar 2019 - Dec 2021
   BP · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Led the move of 214 screens to a shared React component library.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 15 minutes to under 6.
4. Frontend Engineer

   Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
   Shell · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Brought on-call pages for web down from 40 a week to 1.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 15 minutes to under 6.

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Education

1. London Business School

   MBA, Business Administration
   2021 - 2023
2. King's College London

   BSc, Computer Engineering
   2014 - 2017