Summary
Edward Bentinck is a senior software engineer and former CTO with 11 years building product-led teams and full-stack SaaS platforms across web and mobile. He co-founded and scaled Aldea, serving 200+ preschools and 15k+ parents daily, and has led engineering at Kinedu where his teams shipped award-winning apps featured by the App Store. Comfortable from design and art direction through frontend (React, Tailwind) to backend (Laravel) and AWS infrastructure, he blends strong visual design instincts with systems-level engineering. More recently he served as CTO at Doorvel and is now a Senior SWE at Gymdesk, continuing to operate at the intersection of product, design, and engineering. He’s experienced mentoring and scaling teams up to 20 engineers and translating business KPIs into technical roadmaps. Beyond code, his background in advertising and art direction gives him an uncommon eye for product polish and user experience.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Advertising, Bachelor of Arts - BA Advertising at Buckinghamshire New University
English, Spanish