An experienced, technical, software engineering leader with over twenty years of hands-on experience at large software organisations. Has a strong passion for building great teams and empowering them with the knowledge to build robust, cleanly architected, and engaging products. Experienced in implementing tailored agile processes that utilise fast feedback and modern development practises with a data driven approach. Enjoys leading, as well as being part of, successful and productive teams and thrives in fast moving and challenging working environments.Key Achievements- Adept at creating, migrating, and running high performing teams.- Operated at organisational scale, effectively leading over 160 developers and UX across many business functions. With direct responsibility of platforms generating revenue of over £700million per year. - Successfully ran a business with shared ownership, moving the company product from on-premise to SaaS and increasing revenue over 20%.- Successfully sought investment into our business for international expansion and led the project technically.Knowledge SummaryEngineering Excellence :- Experienced in defining software development strategy that provides fast feedback, allowing quicker divergence to appropriate solutions. Leveraging CI/CD, canary, blue/green, distributed build/test, hermetic servers, telemetry, big data, and TiP techniques. A lot of this knowledge has been drawn from my time at Google & Microsoft and I occasionally give talks to other organisations and conferences on the subject.Effective Cloud Hosting :- Fully competent in the use of cloud services and the balance between redundancy, time to market, and cost effectiveness.People Management:- Hired and led teams distributed around Europe and China. Enjoys leading by example, by gaining respect and executing alongside a team.Product :- Work closely with product managers to blend product vision with technical strategy to deliver a portfolio of robust and engaging products.Agile :- Certified ScrumMaster with over seven years of real world experience introducing agile development and project planning practises into teams. My philosophy has always been to focus on sensible agility and not on the doctrine.