Andy Burton is an accomplished technology leader and interim CTO based in Leeds with 14 years of senior experience scaling digital platforms across insurance, betting & gaming, retail, telco and financial services. He has repeatedly led Lean-Agile-DevOps transformations and built high-performing engineering cultures that delivered strategic digitisation, profitable growth and successful exits—most recently digitising esure into a best-in-class UK insurance tech stack and enabling its sale to Ageas. Previously he grew Sky Betting & Gaming into a market leader and helped create the world’s largest listed gaming company after M&A, demonstrating skill at both rapid scale-up and complex integrations. Known for combining strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, Andy prioritises customer experience, quality and rapid value creation while cutting legacy friction. He brings a mathematician’s analytical rigour from Sheffield and a track record of making hard pivots that others hesitated to take.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons Maths, BSc Hons Maths at The University of Sheffield
Contributions:10 releases, 41 commits, 14 pushes in 5 years 3 months
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