Andrew Betts Email & Phone Number

London, GB

San Francisco, CA, US

Hired as the first person to do developer relations as a dedicated role, I created the Fastly devrel team, launched the developer hub, wrote the first version of Fastly Fiddle (empowering everyone to try out Fastly without registering), and worked with our fabulous developer community to make Fastly work better for them though events, tutorials, blogging.

Wakefield, MA, US

I was an elected member of the World Wide Web Consortium Technical Architecture Group, a nine-member body responsible for guiding the development of the World Wide Web. The TAG meets weekly online and quarterly in person to review specification proposals and consider the future development of the web platform for the benefit of developers and users across.

Tokyo, JP

On temporary assignment in Tokyo, Japan, I assisted Nikkei Inc (the parent company of the Financial Times) in their digital transformation plans. My work encompassed digital strategy, outcome planning and technical architecture, and included recruiting and training a local team of developers to work in a new more agile way.

London, England, GB

FT Labs is an emerging web technologies group within the Financial Times. We were created as a result of the acquisition of my startup, Assanka, by the FT. FT Labs is known for the FT web app, an HTML5 experience of FT content on tablets and smartphones, and its community participation in the world of emerging web standards.

My software development consultancy, founded in 2003. We use web technologies in innovative ways. In 2005 we built the first UK property search site to use map based search. In 2006 we built one of the first real time live blogging sites, which we went on to win two Webby awards for in 2008. In 2011, we released the world's first major HTML5 newspaper site.

Responsible for leading development of OnOneMap, a UK property search engine map using Google Maps and featuring around 600,000 property listings for sale and rent. We were acquired by dotHomes in September 2008 and I left after the acquisition.

Fareham, Hants, GB

I worked at the UK's air traffic control service to upgrade Intranet based communications tools and improve workflow within geographically disparate business units and remote radar stations.

Hired for a two month contract to develop and deploy a mission-critical national inventory management and logistics system for an agricultural company in Zimbabwe, resilient to dubious telecommunications infrastructure and frequent power outages. Working with local suppliers and users across the country I designed and built a simple, inexpensive.