Jeremy Burns Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

I wrote Earn More, Move Up to share down-to-earth, real-world advice for anyone wanting to take control of their career, earn more, and land that next promotion. With years of experience as a software engineering leader, I’ve packed the book with insights into handling tricky office dynamics, building a strong personal brand, and sharpening interviewing skills to stand out in today’s job market.It covers everything from negotiating a pay rise and navigating office politics to protecting your mental health and avoiding burnout. I didn’t just want to motivate people—I wanted to give them practical, actionable steps they can use right away to grow their careers.This is a real passion of mine. It brings together all the lessons I’ve learned, helping others find their own path to success.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Engineering leader for Europe and a member of the Senior Leadership Team.• Led the restructuring of the EPD organisation to adopt a customer-centric approach.• Revitalised and accelerated a key project, crucial for the successful enterprise market launch in July 2024.• Elevated and empowered the engineering managers into highly effective leaders.• Shaped product strategy and implemented efficient processes, ensuring exceptional client value andoptimising engineering operations.• Managed a 20% RIF but still built a culture of trust within the team.• Played a key role in establishing a new developer centre in San Francisco.

Berlin, De

• As part of the company’s Senior Management Team, I transformed the Product Development function to focus on ambitious thinking, rapid building, and fast learning.• Shaped the company’s product and technology strategy, leading Product Led Growth teams and managing the core platform (data/asset storage and management/delivery APIs).• Drove recruitment and supported the professional development of engineering talent.

London, England, Gb

• Led a major technology change program to improve Operational Excellence in Operations, Customer Experience, Financial Crime, Finance and other internal functions.• Transitioned to an API-first operations platform, enhancing efficiency and scalability.• Developed a talent development strategy for the technology department.• Reason for leaving: Contentful approached me with a great offer.

London, Gb

I held two leadership positions at News UK, who's core titles include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Times Literary Supplement, Unruly, and The Wireless Group (Virgin Radio, talkSport and talkRadio).• Transitioned from a brand-specific approach to a centralised technology platform for all titles.• Worked with the senior leadership team on business strategy, engineering best practices, project delivery and service improvement.• Grew the engineering team by 70% in London and established an engineering centre in Sofia with 60 engineers.• Focused on organisational design, integrating engineering best practices, and building a strong culture.• Extended our capabilities and best practices to global partners within NewsCorp.• Led a team of eight Heads of Engineering and Principal Engineers, managing 180 engineers.• Maintained high standards, consistency, and continuous delivery while extending best practices to global partners in NewsCorp.• Built a successful apprentice scheme and partnered with AWS /restart for career-switching DevOps engineers.

London, Gb

• Accelerated the digital transformation of The Times Newspaper by developing a CMS and delivery APIs, converting unstructured data into highly-typed content.• Led a team of 45 engineers organised into value-driven, cross-functional teams.• Spun up our successful new office in Sofia, Bulgaria, with 60 engineers.• Instrumental in building flash teams to deliver other specific business objectives, including a remote team in Zagreb, Croatia.As a result of my widespread involvement across the business, I was appointed Head of Software Engineering for all of News UK in April 2019.

London, Gb

• Reporting to the CTO and CEO as part of the management team• Oversaw product delivery and managed a 25-member development and QA team.• Led a successful platform launch, improved processes, and managed cross-functional relationships.• Streamlined hiring, adding 15 new team members, and delivered a delayed Android app in five weeks.

• Provided consultancy for designing, developing, and delivering web apps across various business fields.• Developed a multi-currency mobile payments platform used as a legislative template in Africa.• Built platforms for digital print, health-related e-commerce, CPD for education, and a health-related search engine serving 25 million searches annually.

Kensington, London, Gb

• Led all technology functions (20 engineers), effectively acting as CTO.• Improved delivery speed and quality by enhancing TDD, BDD, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code practices.• Reduced IT running costs by 20%.• A third of the workforce was laid off in July 2016 due to a company restructuring.

A sort term contract to deliver a late running project by the year end. Oversaw and led the successful development and innovation of an online digital rights management platform to MVP stage. Responsible for all aspects of front-end development and delivery. Prepared and wrote Twig templates, Behat tests, JavaScript and controller actions in a Symfony 2 back end.

New York, Ny, Us

•Promoted from individual contributor through to Vice President during my tenure.• Led project leadership, product management, and transformational delivery.• Managed a multi-functional team of 25 staff across New York, London, and Singapore.• Reduced running costs by 30% over four years while increasing output.• Focused on delivery of products aligned to Business Continuity, Service Level Management and Corporate Systems, product delivery supporting equity derivatives, asset tracking, syndicated HR data and Access Identity Management.

• Developed solutions using MS SQL Server and Oracle for oil and gas trading, equity derivatives trade settlement, payroll, and marketing campaigns.