Summary
Robert Preus-maclaren is a Lead Software Engineer with 12 years of full-stack experience building accessible, responsive web applications and resilient backends. He has a track record of growing and leading product and engineering teams across startups, agencies, and large enterprise environments, most recently heading tech at Mind Of My Own after senior work at Matillion. Robert prioritises continuous delivery, automated testing, and developer workflows to keep teams shipping reliably while maintaining strong UX and accessibility standards. He’s equally comfortable making hands-on technical decisions and mentoring engineers, having built a fledgling product team and driven build-outs of new tech teams. An early career in kitchens turned into disciplined, pragmatic engineering leadership—bringing a practical, service-oriented approach to solving complex problems.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer