University of Reading

Reigate Sixth Form College

Woodcote High School

Head Of Engineering at Wildgoose

• I lead the development and support for our in-house CRM product (and customer facing portals)
• Manage and mentor our Product team consisting of developers, designers and PMs
• Remain hands-on, leading technical design and contributing to our Rails and React codebases
• Part of global leadership team, providing technical strategy and insight, contributing to significant year-on-year growth
• Manage company-wide technology education initiatives, ranging from education on product features to required cyber-security awareness training

Smaller Earth Group

Chief Technology Officer

Head of Technology

• Subject matter expert for Engineering within Learning & Development at Shopify
• Responsible for shaping and delivering our technical learning programs for engineers at Shopify
• Delivered widely-acclaimed technical onboarding program (program has since been delivered to over 2000 new hires)
• Routinely hosted lectures and workshops teaching Rails, GraphQL, React and React Native (amongst other key engineering topics)
• Remained hands-on by building tools for my team to optimise logistics for delivery of our programs

Shopify

Senior Technical Educator

• Continued in an advisory role to new owners

Airbyte

Advisor

• I joined Wildgoose as part of an acqui-hire of Airbyte's technical team
• Spearheaded the technical team of Wildgoose, managing and extending capabilities of the existing Rails platform, as well as developing new Rails apps
• Collaborated with senior leadership to create product roadmap strategies
• Mentored and guided the career progression of the technology team members

We Are Wildgoose

• Developed and maintained an analytics platform to help retailers provide digital receipts and view customer data
• Delivered a Rails backend and React frontend, championing introduction of continuous integration and automated deployment

Ecrebo

Senior Software Engineer

• Founded and led technical development at Airbyte, delivering over 60 projects for 27 clients, primarily using Ruby on Rails
• Architected and coded on all technical projects until team grew
• Grew the business to 5 full-time employees before we joined Wildgoose

Co-Founder / Technical Director

• My experience with technologies within Conjure is broad, ranging from mobile development (specifically, the iOS platform) to TV applications, as well as both frontend and backend web development
• Developed in-house products (such as "Mixer" and "Alibi"). "Mixer" later went on to feature on TechCrunch and in The Guardian
• During my time at Conjure, the team had tripled in size, gaining valuable experience into managing a growing team and a variety of processes

Conjure

Software Developer

• Built and released a student-developed mobile application resource for iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7
• First written as a side-project to learn and enhance skills in mobile application development, UniApp grew to be one of the most popular third-party student aide applications in the UK

Ross Beale