Engineering Manager · Engineering Lead · Web & AI Platform Leadership

Building platforms,
teams & AI‑native
products at scale.

Engineering leader with 20+ years building high-performing teams and scalable digital platforms - from hands-on architecture to leading multi-squad organisations across 15+ global markets.

George Amalan - Engineering Manager & Head of Experience Engineering
George William AmalanEngineering Manager & Head of Experience Engineering
20+
Years experience
15+
Countries delivered
18
Engineers led
40%
AI productivity uplift
135+
Articles on Medium

Delivered for

Polestar
Tesco
L'Oréal
L'Oréal
Holt Renfrew
bareMinerals
Radisson Hotels
World Bank
World Bank
Grundfos
TD Ameritrade
TD Ameritrade
Citi
ICICI Bank
Mastercard
MGM Resorts
British Telecom
Godiva
Target
Clas Ohlson
John Hancock
Oracle Financial
Peab
Peab
Core Strengths
What I bring to every engagement
01

Engineering Leadership

Building and scaling high-performing teams of 12–18 engineers. OKRs, DORA metrics, career laddering, hiring, structured 1:1s, and growing engineers into leads.

Team ScalingDORA MetricsHiringMentorshipCareer Laddering
02

Frontend & Platform Architecture

MACH-aligned micro-frontends, design systems at brand scale, SSR/ISR performance, Core Web Vitals, and WCAG 2.1 AA - across 15+ global markets.

React / Next.jsMicro-frontendsDesign SystemsMACHWCAG 2.1 AA
03

AI & LLM Engineering

Delivered ~40% developer productivity uplift through LLM tooling, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows embedded as production standards. Governed adoption with internal ADRs and responsible-AI playbooks.

RAGAgentic AIAzure AILLM WorkflowsPrompt Engineering

The hardest scaling problems I've encountered were never purely technical. A team with clear ownership, psychological safety, and consistent engineering standards will outperform a more technically capable team that lacks these - every time. That's the system I spend most of my energy building: not just the platform, but the organisation around it. The people, the clarity, and the culture that lets great engineers do their best work.

Case Studies
Selected work & outcomes
01Automotive

Polestar - Global EV E-Commerce Platform

Led 3–4 engineering squads with full budget accountability for tooling, infrastructure, and vendor contracts. Defined MACH micro-frontend architecture on AWS, governed cross-squad technical standards via ADRs, and partnered with C-level stakeholders on multi-market platform investment decisions. Delivered the vehicle configurator, pre-owned car modules, and a first-of-its-kind tabletop configurator bridging digital and physical retail across 15+ markets.

ReactTypeScriptGraphQLApolloAWSDynamoDBMicro-frontendsWCAG 2.1 AAVitestJest
15+
International markets
~35%
Faster design-to-delivery
WCAG AA
All flows compliant
02AI Transformation

AI-Native Engineering Programme

Designed and led an organisation-wide AI transformation programme - role-specific upskilling tracks, an in-house RAG-powered migration assistant, and a governance framework adopted as a reference model across Publicis Sapient Nordics. Raised Nordics client NPS by ~20% over the same period. Grew 3 engineers to Lead through AI engineering as a promotion criterion.

GitHub CopilotCursorAzure AIRAGAgentic WorkflowsLLMADR/RFC
~40%
Developer productivity uplift
3 leads
Promoted within 18 months
+20%
Nordics client NPS
03Retail · Award Winner

Tesco - International Grocery Platform

Managed 8 senior engineers delivering Checkout, PLP, PDP, OMS and User Management across 8+ countries using a country-X model. Built a custom SASS multi-theming framework for rapid localisation. Won Retail Systems International Retailer of the Year 2012–13.

ReactSASSCMSCI/CDWCAGSAP HybrisScrum
8+
Countries launched
95%
On-time release rate
🏆
Industry award 2012–13
Recommendations
What colleagues say

20 recommendations from VPs, Directors, Engineering Managers, Architects, and engineers across Polestar, Thoughtworks, Publicis Sapient, IBM, and more.

VP · Director · C-Suite
He is a fine technologist, architect and an effective communicator. His people management skills are exceptional. He believes in creating a friendly, caring atmosphere and motivation by being a role model. He ensures his team keep progressing and delivers complex modules with utmost quality. He has been very successful in delivering large scale projects with many stakeholders - his never say die attitude has been an asset to the team.
Sunil Arunodaya
Vice President of Technology · Head of India GCC
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Recognition
Awards & industry honours
2017

Impact Award - Enabling People Growth

Recognised for mentoring and developing engineering talent - with measurable career progression outcomes across the team.

2016

Gold Partner - Capacity Acceleration

Awarded for scaling team capacity and delivery throughput - enabling the studio to take on larger, more complex client engagements.

2015

Jedi Award - India Studio

Awarded by Publicis Sapient India for mastery and leadership - the Jedi designation marks engineers who have achieved a high level of technical and delivery excellence.

Open to engineering leadership roles.

Based in Malmö - 30-day availability. Swedish citizen with full EU work rights. Engineering Manager, Engineering Lead, VP Engineering.