John Doherty
Founder & CEO at Orca Scan
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Doherty is a founder and CEO with over a decade of experience building web and mobile products, currently leading Orca Scan from Cambridge. He has a long entrepreneurial track record, founding or co-founding multiple startups since the late 1990s and scaling teams through roles spanning front-end development to embedded software. Prior to Orca Scan he built web and mobile apps at Cambridge University Press & Assessment and held senior frontend roles at ADP and RR Donnelley, demonstrating strong product-to-engineering continuity. A Cambridge Judge alumnus of startup accelerator and scaleup programmes, he pairs hands-on engineering with growth-stage strategy. Based in the UK and a father of five, he blends practical, user-focused engineering with real-world operational leadership. Notably, his career moves show a pattern of returning to founder-led ventures where he turns technical concepts into lasting products.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Barclays Eagle Labs Scaleup Programme, Barclays Eagle Labs Scaleup Programme at Cambridge Judge Business School
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
3,829reputation
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76answers
17questions
mobile-safari
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jquery-mobile
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javascript
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puppeteer
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safari
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Github Skills (200)
web-application10
testing10
automation10
nike10
supertest10
firefox10
api10
mixpanel10
ghost10
child-process10
fetch10
dokku10
nodejs10
cordova10
headless-cms10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
john-doherty/express-url-breadcrumb
Nov 2015 - Apr 2021
Express middleware that generates a breadcrumb from the current URL and makes it available in all views via breadcrumb variable
Contributions:3 releases, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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john-doherty/express-batch-requests
Nov 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 release, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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