Owen Gerrard
Head Of Engineering at Comparison Tech
Hurn, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOwen Gerrard is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience progressing from hands-on web developer roles to Head of Engineering at Comparison Tech. Based in Hurn, England, he has led technical teams across product and media companies, including CTO responsibilities at Recombu and long tenures driving delivery and architecture at UK Web Media. He combines practical full-stack engineering roots (building software since the 90s) with people leadership, scaling teams and systems through rapid growth and operational change. Known for steady progression through technical management and senior engineering, he excels at turning legacy platforms into maintainable, product-focused services. Owen’s background spans startups and established publishers, giving him a pragmatic approach to trade-offs between speed, quality, and business impact. Outside work his eclectic studies in computer science, law and psychology hint at a multidisciplinary, user-aware approach to engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
10x GCSEs A-B, 10x GCSEs A-B at Twynham Secondary SchoolComputer Science Law Psychology, Computer Science Law Psychology at Brockenhurst College
Github Skills (37)
mvc-framework10
form-builder10
cakephp10
mvc10
validation10
nette10
psr-710
php10
orm10
rapid-development10
rest-api10
rapid10
web-framework8
php-framework8
checker8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ogrrd/csv-iterator
May 2017 - May 2021
Contributions:4 releases, 6 commits, 1 PR in 4 years
csvphp-classreadablephpclean
comparisontech/cakephp-query-param-preserver
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
A plugin to preserve the query params between requests and even visits by storing them in the users session.
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 1 tag in 1 month
queryparamsstoringpluginpreserve
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