Summary
Jon Mort is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 15 years of hands-on software and engineering leadership experience, based in Warwick, UK. He has risen through engineering roles at Adaptavist—starting as a developer and consultant, then Head of Engineering, and now CTO—combining day-to-day coding with strategic delivery and people mentoring. Jon is skilled across Java, JVM tuning, DevOps automation, and full-stack web technologies, and has a track record of improving developer feedback cycles (e.g., cutting test startup time from 30s to under 1s). He founded a startup early in his career building a network access control product, an experience that sharpened his product-minded engineering approach. Known for creating engineering-led innovation programs (ShipIt-style days and a public Labs platform), he focuses on removing impediments so teams can ship value. Collected experience in performance tuning, deployment automation, and pragmatic architecture underpins his blend of technical depth and operational leadership.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Computer Science, Bsc Computer Science at The University of Manchester