Nick Stevenson
Director Of Engineering at Openbank
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Stevenson is a Director of Engineering with 20+ years of technology experience and a decade in senior leadership roles across companies such as Spotify, Amazon, GoCardless, Growth Street and Openbank. He blends strategic ownership of product and platform with hands-on delivery of secure, extensible, cloud-native systems, particularly in payments, media and SaaS. Comfortable scaling both start-ups and large enterprises, he has built and grown distributed engineering organisations and launched complex services on AWS and container platforms. His atypical path—from professional musician and bandleader to software engineer and Agile advocate—shapes a collaborative leadership style that values coaching, clarity and pragmatic execution. He augments his technical leadership with recent executive education from Cambridge Judge and LSE, enabling stronger commercial and finance-aligned decision-making.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Certification, Chief Technology Officer Programme, Certification, Chief Technology Officer Programme at Cambridge Judge Business SchoolMSc, Interactive technology, MSc, Interactive technology at Middlesex UniversityGraduate Diploma Contemporary Music, Music, Graduate Diploma Contemporary Music, Music at Leeds College of MusicLondon School of Economics and Political Science
basic spanish & portuguese (enough to get by)
Github Skills (4)
historical10
drama10
scroll10
static-site10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
newtheatre/history-project
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
:scroll: Historical record of happenings at the Nottingham New Theatre.
Contributions:115 commits, 2 PRs, 113 pushes in 2 months
static-sitescrolltheatrearchivenottingham
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