Anna Selway
Anna is a Lead Analytics Engineer at Monzo.
Anna’s journey into data and technology was unconventional. Initially trained as a classical singer, she became fascinated by the intersection of traditional music theory and computer science, specifically the idea of computationally extracting musical features based on traditional theory – such as harmony and rhythm – to calculate and recommend musical similarity.
This led to a sharp pivot into a PhD, where she learnt to be resourceful, analyse different types of data, and build her own tools to conduct my research.
Towards the end of her PhD, Anna joined a local tech company, solving technical customer issues. However, her passion truly ignited as I started exploring the entire tech stack. She fell in love with data-driven decision-making and moved into engineering and analytics. Now, a Lead Analytics Engineer and Tech Lead at Monzo, she builds resilient, scalable
foundations – like data models and pipelines – that provide high-quality, trustworthy data to the entire company. She leads diverse teams of engineers, data professionals and product teams to deliver great customer service to Monzo customers.
