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Lisa Li
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS, Cloud, and AI/ML delivery
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Engineering leader who has led 100+ engineers at Sainsbury’s Tech and previously scaled an org from 6 to 60+ at AND Digital. Drove a high-impact modernization of a pricing/decisioning platform serving 1,700 stores—moving from batch monolith to real-time Kafka-based event-driven microservices with MLOps, IaC (Terraform), and zero-trust—delivering £18m+ annual profit uplift and 10+ deploys/day.
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- Led 100+ engineers across real-time systems, distributed platforms, and ML at Sainsbury's Tech
- Aligned competing priorities across a ~3000-person tech division using OKRs, KPI linkage, and cost-of-delay/ROI modeling
- Scaled engineering org from 6 to 60+ at AND Digital while maturing delivery practices for enterprise clients
- Built scalable org structure (cross-functional squads plus guilds/chapters) to maintain standards and growth paths
- Modernized a national pricing/decisioning platform for 1,700 stores from batch monolith to real-time event-driven architecture
- Delivered measurable outcomes: £18m+ annual profit uplift, 10+ production deployments/day, sub-second decision latency
- De-risked critical migrations using strangler-fig approach with blue/green and canary releases and early observability
- Balances executive leadership with technical depth via high-leverage involvement (architecture, RFCs, incidents) and empowered staff-level leaders
- Creates innovation/accountability in distributed teams through outcome-based OKRs, lightweight guardrails, transparent metrics, and protected maker time
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