Andy Black
Director at Broadstairs College
Thanet, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Black is a seasoned digital technology leader and founder with over 30 years’ experience spanning VC-backed startups, global tech firms, and public sector contracts across the UK, US and France. He currently directs ComSkills, a G-Cloud approved SaaS e-learning and video training platform, while lecturing in Computing and designing bespoke digital skills programmes for government and enterprise clients including the FCDO, Vodafone and Honda. His background blends product, marketing and technical delivery—from building cloud services and WordPress platforms to leading digital PR and SOCMINT training for security and diplomatic audiences. Andy’s work is marked by repeated public-sector accreditation and long-term contractor roles that influenced national digital diplomacy rankings, showing impact beyond typical commercial metrics. He brings a pragmatic teacher’s instinct to rapid upskilling and content design, making complex digital tools accessible to diverse professional learners. Based in Thanet, he combines academic tutoring at UCL with hands-on consultancy and platform engineering for remote and hybrid learning.
25 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA TV Film Theatre, BA TV Film Theatre at University of BristolEmanuel SchoolUniversity College London
Github Skills (32)
jython10
lexicography10
wave10
gerrit10
languagetool10
parsing10
natural-language-processing10
nlp10
creative-commons10
algorithms9
language-translation9
keyboard8
linguistics8
machine-translation8
css7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sillsdev/CarlaLegacy
Aug 2001 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 release, 470 commits, 6 PRs in 21 years 4 months
AndyBlack/ftrulegen
Nov 2023 - Apr 2026
Contributions:120 pushes, 4 branches, 4 comments in 2 years 5 months
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