Douglas Squirrel
Director at Arachnys
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDouglas Squirrel is a director and consulting CTO who turns underperforming software teams into high‑velocity, business‑aligned engines, typically within 1–2 months. Over a 20‑year career and engagements with more than 150 organisations, he blends hands‑on engineering chops with executive coaching to recruit or develop strong technical leaders and durable team practices. He has built and scaled engineering organisations from scratch—most notably a 48‑person global technology unit—and driven continuous deployment, rigorous testing, and secure coding across fast‑growing companies. Based in London, he advises startups on technical strategy and hiring while running Squirrel Squared, his consultancy for team turnarounds. An advocate for the power of conversations to improve performance, he co-authored Agile Conversations and occasionally writes and speaks about aligning team dynamics with business outcomes.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's and Candidate's maths, Master's and Candidate's maths at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Arts Maths, Bachelor of Arts Maths at Reed College
German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
fact7
unit-testing6
refactoring6
compiler-errors6
web-application6
rewriting6
concurrency6
integration-testing6
testing6
if-statement6
java6
cli3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
douglassquirrel/kropotkin
Nov 2011 - Aug 2013
Contributions:195 commits in 1 year 9 months
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douglassquirrel/warnsdorff
Jun 2009 - Jun 2011
Contributions:48 commits in 2 years
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