The Glasgow School of Art

Stranraer Academy

NewStore, Inc.

Chief Technology Officer

I was brought in to get Billie in shape for the growth that came with the recent strategic partnerships. The mission was to strengthen the engineering org to world class (by reducing amount of people alongside increasing seniority, and solidifying great practices). I also increased rigour around operations.

Billie

I helped look after engineering, product, data, and analytics teams in Berlin, Boston and San Francisco that were working on recreating a world class supplier experience for Wayfair. Scope of the role included rebuilding and expanding our integration offerings to our suppliers and our supplier portal (Partner Home) - for data and analytics, domain services, platform services, SRE and developer experience. Team size was around 280 people

Wayfair

Supplier Platform & Domain Services Lead

I was proudly the "CTO of love" (and acting CPO) which not many people can claim (NYSE ticker LOV)
There are some amazing brands in our portfolio, such as Zoosk, EliteSingles, Christian Mingle, and jDate. 
I ran a team of around 120 people inclusive of full stack engineers, DevOps, office infra, product and UX for Spark globally, mostly based in Berlin and San Francisco - with additional outsourced teams in Cluj, Romania and Birmingham, UK.
I've been a passionate advocate for Agile practices since 2003: Spark have very good fundamentals with CI/CD, and is in the process of moving to a more TDD, pair programming style of delivery.

Spark Networks

CTO, Acting CPO

I was looking after a fantastic team (Product, UX, Developers, DevOps, Infrastructure - office and datacenter) for the largest e-com / classifieds business currently in Indonesia.  Indonesia is a unique market, given its very high mobile,  low desktop usage (> 90% mobile) and variable mobile network bandwidth.

OLX Indonesia (olx.co.id)

CTO/CPO

Built from scratch the European development capability for Europe, with teams in London, Berlin, and Zurich: moving from an almost total dependency on outsourcing staff to an awesome, almost fully in-house team.
Introduced a high level of Agile engineering practices, like TDD, CI/CD, a fully automated testing cycle, and with focus on rigorous planning and feedback cycles. 
Teams went on to eventually work on the seller side of the ebay business, and to introduce a lot of Agile engineering practices to teams in San Jose.

eBay

Head of European Development 

Emergn

Head of Product Development

Parachuted into many organisations to help (all the way up and down the stack) with technical Agile practices, and exec level coaching. I was also involved in the pre-sales part of the customer journey.

Technical Principal

Agile Coach

WDS Global

Software Developer

Pendragon PLC

Programmer

One of the first teams in the UK and Singapore to fully embrace extreme programming practices, like TDD, pair programming, continuous delivery, and all the feedback and planning cycles.

Agile Coach / Team Manager

CTO: looking after a team doing web development and design

Benjamin Hoskins