Summary
Barnaby Claydon is a product-focused engineering leader with 14 years of experience building cross-platform, offline-first POS and hospitality systems and now serves as Chief Product Officer in Boston. He has progressed from hands-on UI and mobile development to directing engineering and product strategy, scaling analytics and deployment for global customers after Upserve's acquisition by Lightspeed. Barnaby blends deep UX sensibility with technical stewardship, shipping resilient mobile and POS platforms and leading teams that translate user goals into measurable product outcomes. Known for bridging product, design, and engineering, he emphasizes pragmatic solutions that improve frontline hospitality operations. A detail not obvious from titles: his background includes pioneering social and web UI projects at Microsoft and major media early in his career, giving him broad perspective on consumer-facing interactions.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer