Summary
Jonathan Markwell is a serial founder and product-focused technologist with 17 years of experience helping small teams scale revenue per person through software. He co-founded The Skiff coworking community and consumer and B2B SaaS businesses (HowSociable, CoverageBook, AnswerThePublic), and now runs PlainScaling workshops that distill how three businesses reached over £250,000 revenue per person while serving thousands of customers. Comfortable wearing founder, CTO and product hats, he has repeatedly built profitable, self-funded products and communities that serve global customers without growing bloated teams. He combines hands-on engineering and pragmatic product strategy with a knack for making small, calm teams disproportionately effective—having helped businesses serve 8,000+ users and maintain diverse, low-concentration revenue. Based in Brighton, England, he also advises and trains teams as a Consulting/Fractional CTO, sharing playbooks forged in rare, high-efficiency growth journeys.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PGDip Human Centred Computer Systems, PGDip Human Centred Computer Systems at University of Sussex
A Level Computing Physics Maths, A Level Computing Physics Maths at Peter Symonds College