Experienced professional with a track record of aligning technology strategy with business goals. Expert at leading and managing cross-functional teams. Well versed in designing and implementing complex software systems. Expert in Agile Development, and in modern Software Engineering practices.

Expertise:

• Interim CTO, Director of Engineering, Head of Engineering, and Engineering Manager roles.
• Advising Senior Leadership on management, leadership, technology, and development processes.
• Leading multi-disciplinary delivery teams—both co-located and distributed.
• Recruiting, managing, coaching, mentoring, and training technical staff.
• Architecture, design, and hands-on implementation of complex software systems.
• Facilitating the elicitation and negotiation of requirements with multiple stakeholders.
• Reviving struggling projects to get them back on course.
• Technology Strategy.
• Digital Product Management.
• Agile Methodologies, including Large-scale Agile Development.
• (Distributed) mob programming, and pair programming.
• Team Topologies.
• OKRs.
• Automated Testing, Test Driven Development (TDD), Behaviour Driven Development (BDD).
• Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment.
• Cloud computing.
• Service-based architectures and Microservices.
• API Design and Management.
• DevOps.
• Technologies: Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, C++, Python, C#, Swift, Flutter, Groovy, Unix scripting, Docker, AWS, AWS Lambda, SQL, NoSQL, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Git, GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket.

Other professional interests:

• Frequent conference speaker, and organizer.
• Contributor to the book “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know” published by O’Reilly.
• Technical reviewer of several professional books.
• Member of the ACM, the IEEE Computer Society.
• Host for the Software Engineering Radio podcast