I'm a principle-driven, people-first manager who believes that outcomes are byproducts of investing in people and culture. Comfortable navigating (and helping others navigate) ambiguity, I enable aligned autonomy through strategic guardrails and operational support. I leverage my technical background to guide and challenge decisions, remaining hands-on when necessary.
Engineering Director
Smartsheet
privately heldLeading ~40 engineers in fully remote, cross-functional platform teams delivering enterprise administration, auditability, and premium data storage capabilities, supporting $1B+ in annual revenue. Ramped into a complex org during a period of transition and high volatility, tailoring leadership to teams at very different stages of maturity.
I stabilised Admin Center delivery with a mix of tactical and operational improvements, and authored a strategic realignment from feature factory to platform, enabling other teams to self-serve their admin interfaces, reducing bottlenecks. The team delivered 2 key features (Seat Request Flow and Enterprise Plan Management) for plan migrations to a new pricing model.
In Audit, I supported a geographical transition of responsibilities, enabled an architectural rehaul for availability and scalability, and advocated for reframing auditability as a first-class NFR — flipping the model from the Audit team chasing coverage, to product teams owning event compliance.
Achievements
- Stabilised and recovered Admin Center delivery post-missed commitments;
- Authored and gained SLT alignment on Admin Center’s “Platform, Not Content” strategy;
- Delivered Seat Request Flow and EPM v2, accelerating licensing migration (66% vs 60% target);
- Initiated the shift to event ownership as a product-team NFR for Audit.
Engineering Director
Storio Group (formerly Photobox Group)
privately heldHired to build a new serverless platform for a CRM strategy, then promoted to lead eCommerce. Following the merger with Netherlands-based Albelli, I united 6 teams (~55 people across UK, NL, ES, and UA) into a single domain while driving commercial goals and a major replatforming across .NET, Node.js, AWS, a 20-year-old Perl monolith, and modern event-driven microservices.
I partnered with senior leadership on domain strategy and budget, and led the discovery for the post-replatforming operating model, proposing a reorg aligned with team topologies.
Achievements
- Enabled 2 full system replatformings, migrating ~50% of customers to the target platform while maintaining commercial and operational KPIs;
- Mentored Senior Engineers into Engineering Manager roles;
- Managed teams through a merger, re-orgs, redundancies, budget constraints, and in active war zones.
Marco is a rare engineer leader who combines an empathetic style with deep technical acumen to create value whilst striking a great balance between speed, quality and enabling humans in the loop to be the best they can be.