Stuart Brown
Head Of English Language Teaching Product Technology Services at Oxford University Press
Long Crendon, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStuart Brown is a senior technology leader with 14 years’ experience building and scaling product delivery functions for global education and consumer businesses, now leading Product Technology Services for English Language Teaching at Oxford University Press. He has overseen multi-million pound portfolios, managed large nearshore/offshore engineering teams, and translated strategic architecture into reliable, CI/CD-driven delivery at scale. Skilled in Agile and SAFe, Stuart champions modern practices—Infrastructure as Code, BDD, performance testing—and runs innovation programs like hack days to keep teams learning. His background spans cloud migrations, API design and front-end pattern libraries, and he pairs commercial acumen (vendor/contract management) with a humanities-rooted perspective from advanced studies in theology and communication. Not obviously technical at first glance, he started his career in communications and speechwriting, which informs his strong stakeholder engagement and clarity in aligning engineering outcomes to business value.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Theology, Ethics and Communication, Masters, Theology, Ethics and Communication at The University of EdinburghUndergraduate, Philosophy and Theology, Undergraduate, Philosophy and Theology at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (60)
timer10
enclosure10
temperature-sensor10
sensor10
react-bootstrap-table9
webcam9
react-bootstrap-components9
temperature9
raspberry8
react-bootstrap8
amazon8
scheduler7
exec7
raspberry-pi6
react6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jinky32/symfony-play
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:23 commits in 10 days
stuartabrown/google-assistant-express-parliament
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:39 pushes, 9 branches in 1 month
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