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Mike Sprague

Senior Software Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom10 yrs 5 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led teams to deliver impactful software solutions.
  • Scaled engineering teams and improved developer experience.
  • Established technical frameworks for career progression.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Software Engineering Manager with extensive experience in team leadership and technical strategy.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software Engineering ManagementAgile MethodologiesPythonDeveloper ExperienceSoftware EngineeringTechnical LeadershipMobile DevelopmentResearch And Development

Other Skills

iOSSwiftObjective-CPHPJavajQueryCSSGitHTMLFramerJSC++JavaScriptMySQLRuby on RailsRuby

Experience

10 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
7 mos
Current Experience

Github

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Nov 2025Present · 7 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

  • Working on context and integrations for agents on our platform
PythoniOSSwiftObjective-CPHPJava+26

Meta

2 roles

Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2022Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Test Infrastructure & Developer Experience (distributed teams across EMEA)**
  • Scaled distributed teams from 10 to 16+ engineers, establishing customer-focused pod structure across ~40 person organization (impacting 2 other EMs)
  • Developed engineers through growth plans leading to promotions (Staff/IC6→Principal/IC7); implemented performance improvement plans with 2 recoveries and managed out 2 underperformers
  • Established LLM unit test generation pod, leading technical partnerships across Meta's AI research teams, defining strategy, success metrics, and data flywheel fine-tuning. Designed end-to-end metrics funnel and volume-based business impact metrics
  • Created developer experience sentiment strategy, forming cross-functional team with PM, user-research, and data-science; implemented across ~40 person organization
  • Grew Python/AI team from 2->6 engineers; delivered company-wide strategy for Python testing framework unification
  • Defined ambitious+measurable objectives for end-to-end test framework; empowered team autonomy to execute/hit goals
  • Delivered 10x speedup in workflows impacting ~20k developers, championing senior IC's leadership and recognition for company-wide/industry impact
  • Mobile Trust & Safety Team (0->6 engineers, TL->EM progression)**
  • Defined team mission/strategy/roadmap from ground up; hired team, led technical architecture for cross-platform security features, transitioned TL->EM
  • Maintained technical involvement through code reviews, architecture decisions, and IC mentoring while scaling management responsibilities
  • Partnered closely with PM and enterprise sales to define roadmap based on customer feedback, delivering features enabling $1M+ deals while maintaining product flexibility
  • Delivered SSO system supporting advertising revenue across 3+ Meta apps, partnering with data engineering for analytics
  • Led cross-functional initiatives spanning legal, marketing, and product teams during App Store compliance issues
PythonAITest InfrastructureDeveloper ExperiencePerformance ImprovementTechnical Partnerships+4

Software Engineer

Sep 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Developed enterprise account access and security features for Trust & Safety organization
  • Implemented 2FA login flows and security key support deployed across Meta's mobile ecosystem
  • Championed importance of telemetry, elevating data science and data engineering partners to collaborate with engineering team, cleaning up data quality, and establishing foundation for reliability metrics (resulting in significant uptime improvements)
2FASecurity FeaturesTelemetryData QualityReliability MetricsSoftware Engineering

Funding circle uk

Tech Lead

Oct 2019Aug 2020 · 10 mos

  • Joined as senior engineer and progressed to tech lead within the first few months based on leadership impact across iOS, Android, and Web.
  • Partnered with HR and senior stakeholders to redesign engineering competency framework across all levels, establishing clearer career progression pathways
  • Led mobile app initiatives and PM partnerships, developing new features and guiding them to focus on reusability, consistency, and leveraging our analytics to gain data driven insights.
iOSAndroidWeb DevelopmentEngineering Competency FrameworkMobile App InitiativesTechnical Leadership+1

Guidebook inc.

Lead Software Engineer

Jun 2013Oct 2019 · 6 yrs 4 mos · London, United Kingdom

  • Grew with startup from 20 to 100+ employees; moved to London (2018), managing 3 iOS engineers remotely
  • Scaled mobile development processes during rapid company growth, establishing communication frameworks between distributed engineering and sales/support teams
  • Enabled hundreds of white-labeled apps to continue to ship as the company scaled by building automation to automate Apple Account creation, app submission and management, then trained global teams on new workflows
  • Progressed from intern to technical leadership in resource-constrained startup environment, establishing mobile engineering practices and subsequently founding intern program
Mobile DevelopmentAutomationCommunication FrameworksiOSAndroidTechnical Leadership

Uc santa barbara

Research Assistant

Nov 2012Mar 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · Santa Barbara County, California, United States

  • Worked part-time as a security research assistant to Professor Koc, revamping his iOS prototype app, Claveo.
  • Assisted researchers in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences in the Hegarty Spacial Thinking Lab by writing Python code for 3D virtual reality systems.
iOSPython3D Virtual Reality SystemsResearch and Development

Novacoast

Developer Intern

Feb 2011Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Santa Barbara County, California, United States

  • Learned languages and platforms including PHP, Javascript, jQuery, SAP/ABAP, Objective-C, and iOS to contribute to internal projects.
  • Developed an iPad app for creating KPI dashboards, built a graphing framework, and maintained the internal iPhone app.
  • Chosen to represent a client as a lead developer for a SAP HANA workshop.
PHPJavaScriptjQueryObjective-CiOS

Zindagi games

2 roles

Software Engineer

Oct 2009Jul 2010 · 9 mos

  • Worked part-time in highschool developing and maintaining tools written in Python used for the PS3 game Sports Champions.

Lead QA Tester

Mar 2009Oct 2009 · 7 mos

  • Worked in testing, aided with internal IT support, and contributed to the production team.

Education

UC Santa Barbara

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) — Computer Science

Jan 2010Jan 2014

UC Santa Barbara

Bachelor's Degree — Computer Science

Jan 2010Jan 2014

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