John Pountain

John Pountain is an accomplished IT professional with over 25 years of experience, serving in various roles such as CTO, Architect, Delivery Manager, Team Lead, Developer, and Project Manager across England, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

He is known for his delivery-focused approach, innovation, and leadership skills, with a hands-on and results-oriented style. John has a proven track record of providing optimal solutions for clients while adhering to industry best standards and practices.

With a versatile background spanning IT consultancies, international banks, Fintech start-ups, and public sector organizations, he has managed projects of diverse scales and team sizes, including distributed outsourced and offshore teams.

His expertise lies in cloud, scalable and serverless architectures, microservices, web & mobile development, big data, and dev-ops & automation. John has extensive hands-on experience with a wide array of technologies, including cloud platforms like AWS and Azure, CI/CD tools, development languages such as Java, Ruby, and Python, and various databases like MySQL, MongoDB, and Cassandra.

He is also well-versed in integration technologies such as REST and SOAP webservices, messaging with JMS and AMQP, and streaming platforms like Kafka and Event Hubs.

A strong advocate for open-source technologies and agile methodologies, John is ScrumMaster certified and actively promotes agile practices in the organizations he serves.

John aims to continue his leadership in IT by staying abreast of cutting-edge technologies and leveraging his skills to benefit clients. He holds a BA Hons in Business IT from Bournemouth University and has held key positions at reputable organizations like Xinja, Excelian - Luxoft Financial Services, Moven, and others.