Summary
Mark Somerfield is a hands-on technology leader and CTO with 11 years of professional experience building and scaling product engineering teams across fast-growing startups and B2B platforms. Based in Coventry, he combines strategic leadership with day-to-day engineering—having grown teams, migrated legacy stacks to infrastructure-as-code and serverless, and delivered enterprise features like SSO for corporate clients. He also spends time as a software development coach, helping career changers and engineers adopt TDD, agile practices and better feedback culture. Comfortable moving between code, architecture and people, he has a track record of simplifying complex business logic to improve developer productivity and operational resilience. Outside work he balances leadership with parenthood, bringing a pragmatic, mentorship-first approach to building sustainable engineering organisations.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Geographical Sciences, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Geographical Sciences at University of Bristol