Ian Cartwright
Principal Technical Consultant at Softwire
Trafford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIan Cartwright is a Principal Technical Consultant with 12+ years of formal experience and a long track record of senior technical roles spanning startups to global enterprises. Based in Trafford, England, he has spent over two decades consulting at ThoughtWorks—rising to Technical Director and serving on the CTO’s Technology Advisory Board—now bringing that client-facing, delivery-focused expertise to Softwire. Ian blends hands-on architecture and engineering with commercial acumen, having acted as technical lead or lead architect for more than 60 organisations across industries from agriculture to finance. His background includes deep integration and systems work dating back to market-data and telecom projects in the late 1990s, a perspective that informs pragmatic designs for complex, distributed systems today. Known for advising sales and delivery teams as well as leading technical strategy, he pairs a 1st Class Computer Science degree from the University of Kent with a proven ability to translate intricate technical challenges into actionable outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
1st Class BSc (Hons), Computer Science, 1st Class BSc (Hons), Computer Science at University of Kent
Github Skills (81)
gcp10
firefox10
amazon10
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geckodriver10
planning10
webdriver9
neo4j9
cypher9
azure9
rust9
terraform9
gecko9
directed-acyclic-graph9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
thoughtworks/tramchester
Jul 2015 - Jan 2023
tramchester - a simple travel planning app for Manchester's tram system
Contributions:2644 commits, 218 PRs, 1213 pushes in 7 years 8 months
tramtravelmanchestertransportmetrolink
cartwrightian/cfnassist
Oct 2013 - Mar 2022
cloud formation helper tool
Contributions:30 releases, 137 commits, 14 PRs in 8 years 6 months
gcphelper-toolcloudterraformazure
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