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Barry Frost

My career history, education, skills and languages, from my Sifa profile. Connect with me on Sifa or on LinkedIn.

Headline

CTO | VP Engineering | Enterprise/SaaS/Marketplaces

Career

  • VP Engineering - Enterprise · Altium Limited

    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

    BSc (Hons), Computer Science and Business Studies

Skills

Technical

Web DevelopmentDevOpsSoftware EngineeringJavaScriptLinuxMySQLTypeScriptAWSNode.jsPostgreSQLRuby

Business

SaaSProduct ManagementManagement

Interpersonal

Technical LeadershipLeadership

Languages

  • English · Native
  • French · Limited working