Stephen Hardisty
Director & Senior Executive Technologist at Palo Alto Strategy Group
Bath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorStephen Hardisty is a seasoned technology executive with 11 years of senior leadership experience building resilient, product-focused engineering organisations across Europe, the US and Australia. As a former CTO of ImmobilienScout24 and VP of Engineering at Scout24, he has led large distributed teams through technical and cultural change, driving product-led growth, migrations to cloud, and improved operational practices. He now advises investors and PE/VC firms as Director & Senior Executive Technologist performing technical due diligence across industries. Stephen combines hands-on engineering roots (from Symantec and REA Group) with strategic M&A and organisational design expertise, having steered platform strategies and post-merger technical integration. He’s pragmatic about people and processes—introducing mission-driven squads, “you build it, you run it” accountability, and diversity initiatives that materially improved hiring and retention. Based in Bath, England, he pairs operator experience with a consultant’s breadth, helping companies translate technical complexity into investable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (53)
swiftui10
objective-c10
ipad10
apple-tv10
tvos10
swift10
apple-watch10
iphone10
watchos10
react-native9
ios9
flutter9
cocoapods8
spam-detection6
parsing6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
moowahaha/SeleniumConf2012
Sep 2021 - Oct 2025
The Selenium Conf Ruby/RSpec/Capybara workshop
Contributions:10 PRs, 15 pushes, 14 branches in 4 years 1 month
rspecrubyselenium
moowahaha/drlaminator
May 2022 - Sep 2025
Code for www.drlaminator.com
Contributions:10 PRs, 14 pushes, 14 branches in 3 years 5 months
python
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