Summary
Andrew Braithwaite is a senior technology leader with more than 25 years of experience and a 12-year track record in senior engineering leadership roles, currently driving technical standards and cross-organisational practices at Booking.com. He specializes in modernising platform architectures, API ecosystems and operational ways of working to support large-scale e-commerce and “Connected Trip” visions. Andrew has repeatedly scaled organisations and platforms—growing teams, launching new offices and products, and building platforms capable of supporting orders and payments at vastly larger scales. He blends hands-on architectural thinking with people and program leadership, overseeing Architecture, Program Management and Ways of Working functions to raise engineering maturity. Notably, he has taken disparate groups to form cohesive platform families (Ground Transport, Payments, Insurance) and delivered global launches such as public transport in 50+ cities. Based in Stevenage with a BSc in Mathematics, he pairs rigorous analytical grounding with practical experience in API-led transformation and platform scalability.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BSc Mathematics at The University of Manchester