David Sivocha
Chief Technology Officer at Payment Assist Ltd
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Sivocha is a experienced CTO and hands-on technology leader with 14 years building and scaling engineering teams and cloud-native platforms across FinTech and SaaS. He combines strategic leadership with day-to-day coding, architecture, and DevOps expertise—especially in Laravel, PHP, MySQL, and AWS—while leading distributed teams across the UK, North America, and Asia. David has driven measurable platform improvements, notably cutting client onboarding from months to days by redesigning data ingestion and workflow automation. He is skilled at modernising legacy systems into containerised, event-driven architectures and embedding TDD, CI/CD, and Agile practices to improve delivery quality. Outside of work he pursues blacksmithing and photography, a hands-on creative side that mirrors his pragmatic engineering approach. Based in England, he blends operational reliability with a mentor-first leadership style that cultivates high-performing teams for regulated, enterprise-grade products.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC National Diploma, ICT Practioner, BTEC National Diploma, ICT Practioner at Wakefield CollegeDegree of Education, Computer Networks and Security, Degree of Education, Computer Networks and Security at University of Staffordshire
English, German
Github Skills (65)
excel10
laravel10
imports10
csv10
exports10
asset-management10
tasks10
laravel-package10
phpoffice10
php10
phpexcel10
laravel-framework10
wordpress9
skeleton9
knockout9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
davidsivocha/resume
Apr 2014 - Sep 2021
Contributions:53 commits, 30 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 7 months
davidsivocha/slimnode
Jun 2012 - Jan 2016
Contributions:43 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 7 months
bloggingnodejsflat-filesmarkdownblogging-engine
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