Summary
Ashley Hindle is a founder and CEO with 11 years’ experience building engineering teams and AI products that scale, from early PHP startups to leading AI at Laravel and CTO of a fast-growing Series A company. He has a track record of turning small teams into high-performing organisations—scaling Car & Classic from 2 to 100+ people and shipping the auction platform that made the business profitable. Deeply product-focused, Ashley built AI tooling used by millions of developers and led developer-facing AI efforts at Laravel. Comfortable both hands-on and strategic, he recruits, mentors, and delivers reliable systems across backend, DevOps, and ML tooling. Based in England, he combines entrepreneurial grit (he sold a startup at 18) with a proven ability to commercialise developer platforms. Currently leading Fuel, he continues to blend people-first leadership with practical AI product development.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer