The University of Salford

CTO at Autism360

Currently working with an awesome team at Autism360 building out products that celebrate neurodiversity and help children with autism thrive.

We're using AI extensively to power recommendations, therapy chat, clinical summaries and insights to name a few.

Our stack is LangChain, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Gitlab, NodeJS, React and React Native, and my focus is on architecture and solutions while building out a solid engineering team with a great DevOps culture. As with most things in life it's about the people.

Autism 360™

Chief Technology Officer

Bootstrapped a startup enabling rock climbers to connect, discover and share their climbing experiences, already with 1k gyms, 10k crags and 1 million routes.
Tech Stack: React Native, Google Cloud Platform, NodeJS and BigQuery for training analytics.

* https://roks.app *

Roks

Founder

Agile Coach for the BT Digital and Innovation group. Part of the leadership team, and responsible for leading several Agile and DevOps change initiatives across all teams within the group.

* Set-up the BT Engineering meet-ups to encourage sharing and collaboration between all engineers in BT.
* Created a “Shift Test Left” group to solve BT Digital test automation challenges.
* Advised the CIO, Linda da Silva, on portfolio decisions for the BT Digital and Innovation group.
* Defined the test automation strategy in partnership with the test lead for BT Digital, using technologies such as React, Typescript, React Testing library, Jest, & Jenkins; with Java Spring Boot for Microservices & RESTful API’s.

BT Financial Group

DevOps Coach (Engineering)

The Agile Coach for seven Scrum teams within the Institutional Business Banking Digital platform. Led a set of DevOps initiatives to encourage close collaboration between delivery and operations teams, while introducing tools that support a more automated approach to operations. Provided long-term guidance and mentoring to the leadership group and Scrum Masters within IBB Digital.

* Worked alongside ThoughtWorks training and coaching teams in CD and XP, using AngularJS, Protractor & Jenkins. 
* Promoted into the CommBiz Leadership team to drive agility and engineering maturity.
* Inspired and led a team to the finals of the ES hackathon.
* Spoke on DevOps at Agile Australia.

Commonwealth Bank

Senior Agile Coach (Engineering)

Around one hundred people were carved out of the company and tasked with creating a startup managed solution business with a new cloud platform. I initially led and was accountable for one team, then expanded to build an additional three teams alongside an NTT Data account manager. Over time, I also assumed engineering manager responsibilities.

* IaaS platform built using CloudStack, Java, Spring, Javascript, Ruby, PostgreSQL and TeamCity.
* Trained developers in BDD, TDD and Continuous Delivery, which resulted in a one click deployment into production offline and a one click cutover to live; in an ISO 27001 compliant environment.
* Promoted DevOps approach ensuring that the Spanish and UK teams shared operational ownership.

Fidelity Investments

Technical Lead -> Engineering Manager

Helped build a digital platform for sky.com, serving 10 million customers, using Javascript, Java, Spring, PostreSQL and Jenkins.

* Started as the first hire and performed all technical interviews to build out the team to ten engineers. 
* Hands on coaching of developers in TDD, pair programming, user stories, planning and estimation techniques.
* We delivered www.sky.com to one million unique users a day with five nines availability.
* 100+ successful weekly releases of the Sky homepage into production running on a full DevOps model.
* Presented the application architecture and design at the 2010 Grails Conference in London.

David Stott