John Knowles
Head Of Products at Peoplesafe
Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Knowles is a product leader with nearly two decades of experience building customer-centric, secure SaaS and IoT solutions and currently heads product at Peoplesafe, protecting over 150,000 employees across NHS trusts, local authorities and commercial sectors. He has progressed from hands-on support and business analysis roles into senior product leadership at Alfresco and SquaredUp, delivering multi-device client applications, cloud collaboration, and desktop sync solutions. Known for marrying user research with competitive analysis, he excels at turning complex regulatory and safety requirements into scalable product roadmaps and successful launches. A Certified Scrum Product Owner, he blends agile delivery discipline with technical fluency—he has contributed front-end improvements to the widely used Alfresco Content Application. John’s career shows a consistent thread of making enterprise software more usable and trustworthy for frontline workers, not just executives. Based in Maidenhead, he thrives on solving real-world safety problems with elegant, pragmatic technology.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Business Studies and Accountancy, Computer Science Business Studies and Accountancy at Millfield SchoolCity University
Github Skills (9)
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gui-testing8
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Alfresco/alfresco-content-app
Dec 2017 - Nov 2019
Alfresco Content Application
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 71 commits, 60 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on updating and modifying the UI of the Alfresco Content Application. Their work involved modifying the `index.html` file and making changes to features such as the application header, side navigation, document list, and file viewer. These changes seem to be focused on improving the user experience and adding new functionality to the application interface. The commits also include modifications to the testing suite, specifically focusing on the share functionality of the application.
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squaredup/samples
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
A collection of sample dashboards, custom labels, mustaches, SQL scripts and PowerShell scripts to help you get the most out of SquaredUp. #community-powered
Contributions:42 reviews, 164 commits, 39 PRs in 3 months
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