Gawin
Director Of Technology at Octile
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolGawin is a seasoned technology leader with 30 years of hands-on engineering and executive experience, currently serving as Director of Technology at Temper and advising startups as CTO at Octile. He has led large-scale transformations—scaling products from single users to billions, migrating infrastructures to hybrid cloud, and guiding teams through pivots that unlocked multi-million dollar funding. A pragmatic coach and organizer, he restructures engineering and product teams to improve velocity, reliability and employee happiness while introducing DevOps, security and remote-first practices long before they were mainstream. His background spans R&D, managed hosting, blockchain payments, and manufacturing platforms, and includes a high-profile role creating the viral Phonebloks campaign that merged into Google ATAP. Based in Amsterdam, he combines technical depth with a passion for people, minimal travel lifestyle experiments, and designing simple, enduring products.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Business Information Technology, Business Information Technology at University of Twente
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Github Skills (139)
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gamma10
keyboard9
authentication9
swiftui9
rack9
omniauth9
sinatra9
swift8
mongodb-driver8
haml8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gawin/bash-colors-256
Dec 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 5 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 10 months
3DHubs/contentful-hugo-export
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Extract Contentful to Hugo
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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