Mark Ashton

Software Engineering Manager @TomTom

Berlin, DE

Growing and leading a team of engineers- Developing talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development - Applying sound engineering principles and directly contributing toward team’s goals - Creating and maintaining productive relationships with stakeholders - Setting and managing expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders - Collaborating proactively with a distributed team and community - Advocating and advancing modern, agile software development practices and helping to develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices - Growing a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values - Actively engage with the broader leadership team- Leading the Routing team with a mission to deliver best-in-class ETT accuracy- AI & LLM Adoption: Maintained hands-on technical engagement alongside EM responsibilities, applying LLM tooling to code review, refactoring, and management workflows including performance management, system design, and problem-solving.

University of Essex

BSc (Hons) Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)