Summary
Jonathan Catchpowle is a product-focused engineer with 11 years building web applications across startups and scale-ups, currently shaping product at Gradient Labs after senior engineering roles at Pleo and Smart Pension. He blends front-end and back-end expertise—TypeScript, React, Node, Ruby on Rails and SQL—to deliver user-facing features and reliable services. As a former technical lead, he balances hands-on coding with mentoring and architectural decision-making that improved delivery at pension and fintech products. Based in London, he has a track record of moving from early-stage implementation work to staff-level ownership of systems and teams. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and product-minded, often surfacing practical trade-offs that speed iterations without sacrificing maintainability. His background in full-stack web development and a Computer Science degree underpins a calm, steady approach to shipping impactful software.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Essex
English