Former CTO.
Recently exited from building a successful startup from scratch.
Background in Business Development and Engineering. Specialisation in Web and SaaS.
Hands on Engineer and Leader for a combined 17 years.
Career so far
Head of Engineering
Checkatrade
2023 – Now
Chief Technology Officer
StageClip
2017 – 2022
Software Engineer
Ve Interactive / Ve Global
2013 – 2017
Software Engineer
Visions Unlimited
2007 – 2013
Skills
Managing Managers of Managers
Building departments from scratch. Procuring developers and managers internationally. Implementing quarterly goals and OKR’s aimed at customer value first.
Agile Values
Building businesses and software teams around the true values of agility. Elevating teams to own their product and make high level decisions. Not just using Jira and doing Scrum badly.
Cloud Scale
Implementing and managing cost effective hyper scale applications, specialising in Microsoft Azure.
DevOps
Making teams faster and more efficient by having less external dependencies with deployment and CI automation.
Hands-on Software Knowledge
Understanding the bare bones of the product to better understand and communicate, specialising in C# and Node.js.