Anna Selway
Anna is a Lead Analytics Engineer at Monzo, and 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.
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 her research.
Towards the end of her PhD, Anna joined a local tech company, solving technical customer issues. However, her passion truly ignited as she started exploring the entire tech stack. She fell in love with data-driven decision-making and moved into engineering and analytics.
