Dean Sutton
Engineering Manager at Dean Sutton Mentoring
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDean Sutton is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building mission-critical embedded systems and SaaS simulation products, now managing modelling teams that shape strategic supply-chain decisions. He progressed from hands-on embedded firmware and real-time control to governing multi-disciplinary R&D organizations, overseeing CAPEX/OPEX and teams of 5–200 across hardware, cloud and software domains. At Ocado he drove reliability and scale—integrating robots, RF devices and cloud ecosystems to enable global warehouse rollouts and 99% system availability—while keeping a practical engineering lens on architecture and CI/CD for embedded software. Known for systems thinking and storytelling, he aligns technical execution with business strategy and governance across finance, legal and delivery. Outside work he mentors emerging leaders weekly, a practice he credits with sharpening his empathy and problem-framing in complex organizations.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering at University of CanterburyDiploma Web Development, Diploma Web Development at Natcoll Design Technology
Github Skills (3)
logger4
logging3
embedded2
Github contributions (5)
BareMetalAndCoffee/log4c
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 14 PRs, 17 pushes in 6 days
loggerloggingembeddedembedded-systems
dns23/dns23.github.io
Feb 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year
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