Iain Mitchell is a Principal Architect with 14+ years of hands-on software engineering and leadership experience, now shaping platform and product architecture at Wayve. He has a strong track record of driving cloud-native transformations, developer-centric platforms, and compliance-focused initiatives—most recently delivering FedRAMP compliance and orchestration improvements at Snyk Code. An advocate of TDD, Software Craftsmanship, XP and Lean practices, he consistently coaches teams to improve quality, reduce waste and treat developers as customers. His background spans industries from media (BBC) to retail and fintech, combining deep technical guidance with practical delivery leadership across Node.js, Ruby, C#, and AWS. Iain also contributes to the wider software community through talks and blog posts, and is known for pairing technical strategy with hands-on mentoring. Based in Stevenage, he blends pragmatic architecture with a persistent focus on developer experience and measurable team throughput.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Dip Comp, Software Development, Dip Comp, Software Development at Open University
BA Hons, Development Studies, BA Hons, Development Studies at University of East Anglia
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