Max Webb

Overview

VP of Engineering at Summit Labs, focused on mobile apps. Took crash-free sessions from 98.3% to 99.6%. Before that: AstraZeneca and GSK. Board member at a local non-profit.

Replies on weekday evenings

Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Mar 2024 - Present
   Summit Labs · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Glasgow, UK
   • Reduced cloud spend on Android by 24% in two quarters.
   • Grew the Android team from 4 to 25 engineers.
   • Cut p99 latency on the Android services from 420ms to 75ms.
2. Staff Android Engineer

   Oct 2021 - Mar 2024
   AstraZeneca · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Glasgow, UK
   • Moved 87% of Android traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Director of Engineering

   Dec 2019 - Oct 2021
   GSK · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Glasgow, UK
   • Grew the Android team from 3 to 18 engineers.
4. Senior Engineering Manager

   Aug 2017 - Nov 2019
   Meta · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Glasgow, UK
   • Built the experimentation framework 24 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Brought on-call pages for Android down from 27 a week to 3.
5. Staff Android Engineer

   Jan 2016 - Jun 2017
   Vodafone · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Glasgow, UK
   • Reduced cloud spend on Android by 27% in two quarters.
   • Shipped 24 launches on the Android team without a rollback.

Projects

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Education

1. University of Leeds

   BSc, Computer Engineering
   1999 - 2002