Tudor Evans CV

I’m a software engineer and engineering manager based in Cambridge, UK. I work mostly in web dev and distributed systems. I consider myself an all-rounder and enjoy working cross-functionally with product, marketing and sales. I believe in an output-focussed approach to management, and like working with high talent individuals who can be given ownership and responsibility over their own problem spaces. Some highlights of my career:

  • Achieving 10% month on month growth in the Speechmatics self-service revenue
  • Building a massively scalable usage and billing system for ASR telemetry
  • Leading a high-performing team trusted by the business to execute on multiple complex engineering challenges

As well as people management and tech, I love working as a communicator. I have received very positive feedback about my presenting and writing styles, and enjoy public speaking.

In my current role at Speechmatics, I’m the team lead for our self-service product offering. Check it out at portal.speechmatics.com.

Last reviewed 2026-07-27.

Experience

Senior Team Lead

Speechmatics · January 2026 – present

I manage a team of five engineers. The DevX team is responsible for auth, billing, platform services, SDKs, analytics and docs. I also act as product owner/manager for our self-service product offering, setting OKRs for the team with input from the executives. I produce the financial and data reports for the team, and identify our KPIs, with a focus on input metrics - time to value, sign-ups, feature uptake etc. I’ve worked with marketing to improve their operations and planning processes around the website too.

Some highlights:

  • Achieved 10% month on month revenue growth across a three-year period in our self-service product.
  • Doubled new enterprise customer acquisition as a result of the reduced sales cycle from my team’s work. This includes work to improve customer visibility over usage patterns, reduce time-to-value for them to integrate our API into their stack, and rolling out enterprise-grade features such as MFA and finer-grained access control on shared accounts.
  • Co-created a user interview process for the company that has allowed our product and engineering teams to better understand the needs of developers interacting with our API. This process has been used when preparing to launch new features in the portal and a new Voice Agent builder-focussed STT API, cutting dev time and raising feature quality.
  • Developed a new hiring process for my team, which we used to successfully recruit a graduate-level software engineer.

Staff Engineer / Tech Lead

Speechmatics · July - December 2025

As the staff engineer / tech lead on the DevX team, I ran the day-to-day of the team and was responsible for line managing two of the team members. I set team goals and strategy, and worked with non-tech teams to understand customer requirements, manage backlog etc.

Some highlights:

  • Onboarded an engineer from another team who had low morale, and managed him so that within six months he was exceeding expectations and on a promotion path.
  • Onboarded a graduate-level hire and helped her successfully integrate into the company through training and support.
  • Co-led a major auth migration from Azure to WorkOS, which tripled the free -> paid user conversion rate (2.2%->6.3%).
  • Shifted the company towards a product-led growth model. That included presenting at Town Halls, presenting to the leadership team, and sitting down with marketing and sales to map out their processes and incentives and figure out how they would need to change to accommodate PLG. This has increased our revenue momentum from a point of low/no growth to a point of double digit percentage revenue growth per year.
  • Represented the company at VapiCon in SF, where I spoke to hundreds of developers and builders and registered some valuable leads for the company.

Software Engineer (II, Senior I, Senior II)

Speechmatics · April 2022 - July 2025

As a senior engineer on the team, I was responsible for maintaining the backend and front end systems. I was also instrumental in the decision-making and planning around the launch of our mobile app for marketing purposes.

Some highlights:

  • Tech lead on a project to redesign our global system architecture from a RESTful synchronous system to a highly available asynchronous event-driven platform, based on Apache Kafka.
  • Built a flexible, multi-region billing and auditing system for real-time customer telemetry, based on an Apache Kafka backbone, which is still in production 3 years later and now handles 12 million events every day, with minimal changes.
  • Created some of the core UI menus, auth stack and chunks of the audio processing logic for a React Native app my team built, for which I had to learn some Swift.

Technology Consultant

IBM · 2019 - 2022

I worked as a technology consultant for IBM straight out of university. This mostly focused on building event-driven distributed system prototypes for the UK Civil Service.

Some highlights:

  • Did a month-long training course in management, strategy and consulting skills.
  • Earned an AWS Solutions Architect certification.
  • Worked on PoC projects to re-architect systems for departments including DWP and DEFRA. Most of these were not taken forward for productionisation, for various reasons, which is why I left consultancy to work on building user-facing products.

Education

MSci History & Philosophy of Science

University of Cambridge · 2018 – 2019

BA Natural Science (Physics)

University of Cambridge · 2015 – 2018 · Triple First

Skills

  • Languages — TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust
  • Infrastructure — AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka
  • Certifications — AWS Solutions Architect Professional
  • Soft Skills — presenting, technical communication, running effective meetings, people management, project management

Personal

In my spare time, I enjoy playing jazz and classical guitar, watching movies, reading classic literature and swing dancing.

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