Summary
Jon Wade is a software engineer and seasoned technology leader with 10+ years building serverless, event-driven systems and leading distributed teams across Europe and Africa. He’s been CTO twice, driving card-issuing and fintech platforms, and specialises in Node.js and AWS serverless migrations and microservice architectures. Comfortable both hands-on coding and high-level architecture, he combines product-focused delivery with security, monitoring and CDK/IaC practice. After a year-long break to become a dive instructor and learn to sail, he’s seeking short-to-medium remote contracts where his legacy-to-AWS migration expertise can add immediate value. An analytical thinker with a background in economics and ongoing maths study, he brings rare cross-disciplinary resilience from leadership, startups and operational roles.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BSc Mathematics at The Open University
Bachelor’s Degree Economics, Bachelor’s Degree Economics at University of Exeter
English