Summary
Asa Carrington is a pragmatic CTO with 13 years of experience delivering cloud-native platforms, multi-tenant systems, and digital transformations across insurance, fintech, and infrastructure-heavy domains. He combines hands-on engineering—regularly writing security-sensitive integrations and deployment automation—with strategic leadership in hiring, vendor negotiation, and product roadmapping. Asa excels at pragmatic trade-offs: knowing where to accrue technical debt, which areas require full test coverage, and when to prioritise devops versus click-ops to hit time and budget goals. His work spans Azure and AWS, Terraform-driven infra, containerised services, and scalable hybrid cloud architectures that supported everything from e-commerce and payments to hardware-regulated crypto mining. Colleagues rely on him to stabilise legacy systems, grow teams, and shepherd complex projects from prototype to production without losing sight of usability and readable code. Based in Manchester, he’s as comfortable optimising operational processes as he is writing "really good code" that stands up in production.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Aberystwyth University
English, German