Crispin Read
CEO & Founder at The Coders Guild
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCrispin Read is a founder and tech leader with over a decade building practical apprenticeship and upskilling programmes that help growth-stage businesses close critical capability gaps without competing on senior salaries. As CEO of The Coders Guild he led development of the UK’s first Level 4 AI & Automation apprenticeship standard and has shaped Level 3/4 software curricula to be AI-native and business-focused, with recent Ofsted validation. He combines hands-on curriculum design, government-facing policy work (FSB, Skills England) and direct client escalation, enabling organisations from 20- to 300-people to develop talent while solving real commercial problems. A former CTO and engineering manager, he’s equally fluent in hiring constraints and technical delivery, which informs his “potential-first” hiring philosophy. He also brings a practical advisory background via a founding role at Specs: Digital Advisors, turning AI proofs-of-concept into funded transformation projects.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
GCSEs, GCSEs at Colchester Royal Grammar SchoolGoldman Sachs 10K SME, Goldman Sachs 10K SME at Saïd Business School, University of OxfordA Levels Art Philosophy Media Studies Religious Studies, A Levels Art Philosophy Media Studies Religious Studies at Colchester VI Form College
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
coders10
django9
index-html9
web-development9
javascript8
drupal8
tailwind8
tailwindcss7
css7
eleventy7
php7
html6
ssg2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thecodersguilduk/semantic-html-challenge
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
crispinread/webdev-apprenticeships
Jun 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 156 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 4 months
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