Neil Crawford
Engineering Manager at People's Postcode Lottery
Newport-on-Tay, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNeil Crawford is an experienced engineering manager and technologist with 12 years of experience designing and delivering scalable platforms that improve customer experience and drive business value. He combines hands-on backend expertise (Elixir, Go, Java) with leadership roles from Head of Technology to interim CTO, guiding teams through DevOps transformations, microservices migrations, and continuous delivery. Known for fostering cultures of learning, openness and strong interpersonal collaboration, he operationalises lean, agile and XP practices to improve flow and developer productivity. He has a track record of measurable impact—improving uptime and performance, tripling organic traffic at a startup, and speeding release cycles to sub-10-minute deployments. Comfortable both as a planner and a doer, he has led cross-functional strategy, presented to boards, and acted as a technical product owner to align engineering with business OKRs. Based in Newport-on-Tay, Scotland, he blends actuarial-grade analytical rigour (BSc in Actuarial Maths & Stats) with an MSc in Applied Computing to tackle technical, cultural and organisational challenges.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Applied Computing, MSc, Applied Computing at University of DundeeHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
Github Skills (155)
consumer-driven-contracts10
windows10
javascript10
linux10
prompt10
inquirer10
js10
cli10
joi10
rocket10
macos10
nodejs10
portable9
color-scheme9
ssh-agent9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
findmypast/haar
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Diagramming tool and CLI
Contributions:67 commits, 59 pushes, 4 branches in 10 months
pythonumldiagrammingdiagramcli
bapti/learning
Sep 2015 - Jul 2020
A repository about learning with various programming languages
Contributions:212 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 11 months
javascriptprogramming-languageslanguagesjavaprogramming-language
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