Anna Shipman is one of the UK’s most respected engineering leaders. As Technical Director at the Financial Times, Anna has technical responsibility for the award-winning FT.com website and apps, leading a team of 50+ engineers to ensure the quality, operational service and security of the FT’s customer products.
Prior to the FT, Anna spent 6 years at Government Digital Services - the highly revered online citizen services branch of the UK government which is responsible for GOV.UK. Starting out as a developer, via Technical Architect, to finally being Open Source Lead, Anna ended up Setting strategy on open source for the whole of the UK government.