Wingston Sharon Wilson

I build engineering teams that ship reliable products at scale and I keep those teams healthy while doing it.At Booking.com I lead multi-disciplinary teams spanning backend, frontend, ML, and design. Over 9 years I've owned every stage of the people side: headcount planning, hiring loops, onboarding, 1:1s, performance calibration, promotion cases, and the difficult conversations when fit or performance isn't there.The part of management I care most about is development. Helping a mid-level engineer learn to lead a technical direction, not just execute on it. I invest in creating psychological safety and clear feedback cycles so people know where they stand and what growth looks like.On the technical side, I'm not just reviewing slide decks. I led the Perl-to-Java platform migration across accommodations, shipped Fly Anywhere (flights search product), and delivered partner integrations with Apple, Kayak, and Google Flights. My teams build with Java microservices, Spring Boot, ML recommender systems, and experimentation frameworks, serving millions of daily users across 40+ markets with 99.9% uptime.Before Booking I built products at startups in Bangalore, Pune, and Dubai, everything from 200GB asset management platforms to Django-based data products. That early-stage muscle still shows up in how I run teams: low overhead, high ownership, bias toward shipping.I'm looking for Engineering Manager or Senior EM roles where people leadership, technical depth, and operating at consumer scale all matter. Amsterdam-based, hybrid, or on-site in Europe.LinkedIn DM is the fastest way to reach me.