Summary
Stuart Chapman is a founder and senior cloud/DevOps engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, cost-effective infrastructure and automation for media, finance, and enterprise clients across the UK. He currently runs With Otto, focusing on accounting automation, and leads technical delivery at The Number Ninja, combining product-led entrepreneurship with hands-on engineering. Stuart has deep AWS expertise—CDK, CloudFormation, Lambda, GuardDuty, Security Hub—and a track record of improving security posture and operational efficiency across dozens of accounts for organisations like The Economist and SMS Plc. He’s pragmatic about migrations and cost savings, having replaced legacy infra, introduced SSO and Session Manager, and delivered multi-account deployment tooling that saved substantial operational spend. Comfortable in both backend and front-end stacks, he moves between Python, TypeScript, VueJS and PHP to solve real business problems. Colleagues rely on him for clear build documentation and tooling that turns complex cloud architectures into maintainable, auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced GNVQ in Information Technology Information Technology, Advanced GNVQ in Information Technology Information Technology at Oxford College of Further Education
BSc Internet Computing Computing, BSc Internet Computing Computing at University of Hull
English