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.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (76)
apple-tv10
swiftui10
swift10
apple-watch10
tvos10
widgetkit10
iphone10
watchos10
ipad10
react-native9
ios9
objective-c9
flutter9
cocoapods8
sketchup7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
moowahaha/SalesFlip
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
A lean, unobtrusive CRM built on mongoDB and Rails 3
Contributions:11 PRs, 15 pushes, 14 branches in 3 years 6 months
ruby-on-railsunobtrusiverailshotel-bookingruby
moowahaha/spare_ec2_reservations
May 2016 - May 2024
Lil script to tell me how many EC2 reservations I have available in a given region.
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 10 branches in 8 years 2 months
ecsec2regionreservationsaws
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