Giles Edwards-alexander
CTO, Europe, Middle East And India at Thoughtworks
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGiles Edwards-alexander is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 17 years of experience building and scaling product and engineering organisations across sectors including fintech, healthcare, retail, travel and education. He has founded and run startups, designed and implemented a custom programming language, and helped grow businesses to over $130M/year in revenue and to successful IPOs. A hands-on engineer by background, he has deep experience from constrained embedded systems through to large-scale web services and AI, and has led teams that delivered apps generating over $1B/year. Giles is skilled at translating business models into technology strategy, growing teams from zero to global engineering departments, and applying lessons from one industry to innovate in another. Now leading Thoughtworks’ EMEIA technology agenda, he combines strategic client-facing leadership with a practitioner’s curiosity about new architectures and developer ecosystems. Colleagues note his rare blend of product intuition, low-level technical depth, and proven operational rigor.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityBachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science at Charles Darwin University
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Github Skills (45)
android9
flutter8
cross-platform8
cucumber8
ios8
json8
consumer-driven-contracts7
pong6
mobile6
clojure6
ethereum6
blockchain6
ruby6
solidity6
smart-contracts5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gga/starling
Feb 2011 - Jun 2016
Contributions:62 commits, 3 pushes in 5 years 4 months
gga/asid
Aug 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:168 commits in 5 months
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