Summary
Josh Cole is a pragmatic, hands-on technology and AI strategist with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, leading full-stack teams, and delivering product-focused engineering outcomes across fintech, healthcare, ESG, education and beyond. He combines deep technical expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, TypeScript/Node, React and data pipelines with a proven track record of architecting agentic AI systems, event-driven integrations and high-throughput microservice estates. As a people-first leader he creates psychologically safe, high-performance teams, drives CI/CD and QA improvements that enable multiple daily deploys, and mentors engineers to become cross-skilled contributors. He founded and ran technical ventures—including an NFC hardware product and a digital agency—so he pairs startup pragmatism and commercial judgement with enterprise-grade engineering practices. Based in London, he’s equally at home in the codebase or the boardroom and is motivated by using technology to measurably improve quality of life. An avid weightlifter and lifelong learner, he brings both discipline and curiosity to complex technical challenges.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Innovation & Entrepreneurship at University of Portsmouth
Southdowns College
Springfield Technology College