I am a driven CTO with years of experience as a software engineer and a passion for highly scalable digital systems. I see the ongoing commitment to Computer Science and a dedication to always use the right tool for the right job as a vehicle to innovate and enhance output and build great products that make a real difference to end users.My extensive experience developing software for global leaders in industries such as e-commerce, and government services ensure that I have a broad understanding of the required strategic decisions that allow my distributed and onsite development teams to rapidly create a maintainable, secure, fast stack that provides end-users with the best experience.I am highly focused on continuous integration and as a result, our products are delivered rapidly with comprehensive test coverage on time and budget, giving our customers the peace of mind that our products work perfectly the first time, every time and that their business requirements are met.I am an experienced and passionate educator and believe the sharing of knowledge is the key to creating a successful team that is constantly growing and improving.I am committed to creating safe working environments for my staff that encourage collaboration and gives a voice to every developer so every good idea is considered.I am an evangelist of Open Source Software (OSS) which is essential to the advancement of technology. I regularly contribute to OSS including Ruby on Rails, Rack, CodeTriage, Faker, Rabl and more.I am proficient in the following: agile methodologies, test first practice (behaviour driven development, test driven development), Docker, system languages (Rust), functional (Elixir, Erlang, Haskell, Idris, Elm) and object-oriented (Ruby) paradigms and frameworks (Rails, Phoenix), relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL), and NoSQL databases (ElasticSearch, Riak, HBase, Cassandra, Redis, Neo4J, influx), frontend stack (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, ES6, React, Elm).