Summary
Ali Clark is a founder and CTO with 11 years of engineering experience building high-performance, production-grade systems—from a homegrown search engine indexing 30 million sites to serverless architectures that drove £3M annual savings. Comfortable across TypeScript, Rust, AWS and performance profiling, he combines hands-on development with security and observability expertise gained at firms like Worldpay and Deloitte. He mentors engineers and improves team processes, shortening delivery cycles and preventing costly live errors while hiring diverse, effective teams. Passionate about low-carbon and sustainability-focused tech, he channels that interest into practical products and startups. Off-hours he balances rigorous problem solving with board games, dog walking and skiing, reflecting a pragmatic yet curious approach to engineering and leadership.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science at University of York
University College London