Andrew Stopford
Head Of Software Engineering at Positive Solutions
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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SeniorAndrew Stopford is a senior engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and running large software organisations, currently serving as Head of Software Engineering at Positive Solutions in Manchester. He has repeatedly scaled teams and delivery functions—managing 70+ engineers at THG and leading cross-disciplinary engineering, QA and UX teams at Havas—while pioneering cloud and Kubernetes adoption across enterprise environments. His background spans high-throughput transaction systems, healthcare integrations (HL7, ISO-regulated environments) and ecommerce platforms, giving him a pragmatic blend of compliance-minded engineering and cloud-native operations. A long-time .NET ecosystem contributor and early ASP.NET practitioner, he brings deep hands-on experience across full-stack development and DevOps. Colleagues know him for turning legacy processes into automated, test-driven delivery pipelines and for advising wider networks on cloud strategy.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
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