Rob Thatcher
Lead Consultant at Mechanical Rock
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRob Thatcher is a pragmatic technology leader and founder with 12+ years guiding digital transformation, agile delivery and DevOps adoption across finance, energy and communications sectors. Currently Lead Consultant at Mechanical Rock and founder of Chalk and Cheese, he blends hands‑on systems experience with coaching skills to accelerate team maturation, reduce time spent in "forming" and "storming", and improve delivery predictability. He has a track record of building delivery assurance capability, running cross‑functional change programmes, and shaping cloud‑ready platforms from infrastructure-as-code to SRE practices. Known for a calm, supportive mentoring style, Rob pairs strategic partner work with founders and leadership teams while still enjoying the small rituals—he’s a tea maker and coffee drinker who keeps the human side of engineering front and center.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics Computer Science Physics, Mathematics Computer Science Physics at Borden Grammar SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Coventry University
English
Github Skills (9)
mustache7
elk5
docker4
logstash4
vagrant4
elasticsearch3
kibana3
logging2
trello1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SkeltonThatcher/leanpubmagic
Jun 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years
SkeltonThatcher/velk-demo
Sep 2014 - Sep 2017
Contributions:51 commits, 6 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years
vagrantelkkibanadockerlogstash
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