David Cottingham
Chief Technology Officer at IQGeo
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Cottingham is a Cambridge PhD-trained technology leader and current CTO who has spent over a decade scaling global product and engineering organisations across cloud, SaaS, and embedded hardware domains. He combines deep technical roots in systems and integrations with commercial acumen—from founding a consultancy to negotiating multi-million dollar OEM deals and steering post-acquisition integrations at Citrix. At Checkit and IQGeo he led ~50-person distributed teams, drove cost reductions and cloud COGS savings, improved team eNPS, and shifted delivery to in-house, SAFe-enabled practices. His background in astrophysics and wireless communications gives him a research-led approach to product strategy and data-driven decision making, including introducing telemetry and analytics to inform roadmaps. Known for balancing technical debt, supplier strategy, and innovation, he regularly presents to executive and board levels and has hands-on experience shipping hardware-software products and developer-facing platforms. Based in Cambridge, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic leadership that turns complex engineering ecosystems into scalable, revenue-driving products.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science (Wireless Communications), PhD Computer Science (Wireless Communications) at University of CambridgeNEBS Certificate Management, NEBS Certificate Management at Pershore College Business SchoolSecondary School, Secondary School at Sunny View School
English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Japanese
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Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bnikolic/simpleredcal
Mar 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:455 commits, 352 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
matyasmolnar/robstat
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:154 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
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