Work

Career

• VP Engineering - Enterprise · Altium

  May 2023–Present

  Leading Altium's Enterprise Engineering team and Engineering in Professional Services. Technical leadership and solutions delivery for global enterprise customers.

• VP Engineering · Privitar

  January 2022–January 2023

  Responsible for Privitar's engineering team, process and delivery. Building a new data privacy and provisioning platform. Delivered on time, on budget and rolled out to global enterprise customers.

• CTO · The Influence Room

  September 2019–January 2022

  Led product and technology for brand-to-influencer marketplace startup growing towards international rollout. Hired brand new team, managing people, defining processes, leading product management and technical architecture.

• CTO · Gumtree / eBay Classifieds Group

  July 2018–August 2019

  Leading Gumtree's technology and product team in London, building the UK's best classifieds website and mobile apps. eBay director and part of eBay's global classifieds CTO team. Managing managers: engineering managers, staff engineers, senior product managers, quality and delivery managers.

• CTO · Venntro Media Group

  January 2008–April 2018

  White-label, B2B/B2C, SaaS, online-dating platform, powering 12,500+ sites worldwide. Recognised in Tech City’s Future Fifty, Sunday Times Profit Track 100/International Track 200. Built product and engineering team from 0-50, organised into six cross-functional Agile teams. Leading, coaching and growing people. Board member and company director.

Education

• University of Warwick June 2000

  BSc (Hons), Computer Science and Business Studies

Projects

• Vibrancy

  Headless CMS and Micropub endpoint for personal websites. Used for the back-end of https://barryfrost.com

• Micropublish

  A Micropub client that you can use to create, update, delete and undelete content on your Micropub-enabled website.

Skills

Languages

• English Native
• French Limited working