Jamie Lawrence
Chief Technology Officer at Podia
Cork, Munster, Ireland
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Top SchoolJamie Lawrence is a pragmatic Chief Technology Officer with 15 years of hands-on software engineering and leadership experience, currently leading technology at Podia while advising non-technical founders through his consultancy, Ideas Asylum. He blends Ruby on Rails full‑stack craftsmanship with a business-first mindset, helping early-stage teams define markets, scope products, and hire and scale engineering teams as an interim CTO. Jamie’s background spans enterprise systems at IBM and research roles in agent-based systems, giving him deep experience in both legacy modernization and designing pragmatic architectures. Known as a do-er who ships features and mentors teams, he translates founder vision into working software and repeatable processes rather than producing “pretty code” alone. Based in Cork, Ireland, he pairs academic rigor from Sheffield and doctoral study with startup velocity to de-risk technical decisions for growing businesses.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (unfinished) Computer Science, PhD (unfinished) Computer Science at University of SouthamptonBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at The University of Sheffield
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (135)
mvc10
ruby10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
uri10
html10
rails10
custom-configuration10
activemodel10
sidekiq9
guard9
footnotes9
csv8
jruby8
test-coverage8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ideasasylum/AIB-Transaction-Download
Jul 2010 - Feb 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 3 years 7 months
csvaccountrubyruby-scriptcsv-files
podia/counter
Jul 2021 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 reviews, 15 PRs, 64 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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