Joel Chippindale
CTO Coach at Founder Coaches Network
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Chippindale is a seasoned technology leader and CTO coach with 17 years of experience building and scaling engineering teams across startups and scale-ups, including CTO roles at Econsultancy, FutureLearn and Unmade. He combines hands-on technical credibility from early software and Ruby on Rails work with senior operational experience as a former COO, helping technical leaders transition as their organisations grow. As founder of Monkey's Thumb and a Success Coach for Cambridge Judge Business School, he focuses on developing CTOs who can balance technical strategy, team dynamics, and product delivery. He is a founding member of the Founder Coaches Network, bringing a practitioner’s perspective to professional coaching for founders and tech leaders. Based in London and grounded in a scientific education from Cambridge, he pairs analytical thinking with real-world product and organisational experience. Colleagues value him for pragmatic, scalable leadership patterns and for translating CTO challenges into actionable development plans.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Natural Sciences, BSc Natural Sciences at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (179)
itunes-search10
pair-programming10
svg-sprite10
deno10
javascript10
rust10
typescript10
computation9
twitter9
tokenize9
linux9
middleman9
sketchup9
google-analytics9
plausible-analytics9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mocoso/joelchippindale-com
Oct 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:21 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 6 months
mocoso/screen.tmbundle
Sep 2008 - Aug 2012
Contributions:20 commits in 3 years 11 months
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