Principal engineering & technical leadership
Set direction, make consequential decisions and lead teams through complex product and platform delivery.
Explore technical leadershipIndependent principal engineer · UK
Principal engineering leadership. Hands-on delivery.
Enzyme Software is the independent consultancy of Lee Cheneler. He helps organisations build and modernise complex digital products—setting technical direction, leading teams and delivering the difficult parts hands-on.
Engineering professionally since 2012 · Independent contracting since 2018
Experience includes
- BPP
- NewDay
- The Economist
- Tunstall Healthcare
- Dunelm
- Sainsbury’s
Where Enzyme helps
Senior thinking. Practical outcomes.
Lee works where product intent, architecture, delivery and team effectiveness meet—providing technical direction without stepping away from implementation.
Cloud platform & product delivery
Design and build reliable digital products, resilient integrations and pragmatic cloud foundations.
Explore platform deliveryEngineering effectiveness & responsible AI
Improve how teams plan, test and deliver—with automation and AI inside clear engineering controls.
Explore engineering effectivenessSelected work
Built for real operational complexity.
Principal engineering at BPP.
Leading multiple teams through a new student application platform, an organisation-wide design system and cloud-native integration.
Kiri: a local-first AI workspace.
Lee’s own product for AI-assisted sessions, durable project knowledge and reusable workflows—with explicit tool permissions.
Digital practice operations
A public website and private practice-management product, designed and built around an independent healthcare business.
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