Hi, I'm Andy 👋 from 🇬🇧
I'm a self-taught developer with many years experience across a range of industries, but recently spending my time leading teams (although I still like to stay active in coding).
📜 Fellow of the British Computer Society and Chartered IT Professional.🪚 Chief Technology Officer of FounderCatalyst building an innovative Lawtech platform for helping British entrepreneurs to raise funding for their companies.🪚 Co-founded Civo and worked (from startup in 2016 to mid-2022) as Chief Technical Officer leading teams building the next generation of cloud-native Kubernetes managed services.🌱 Learning all the changes in Ruby on Rails 7 (really nice to have TailwindCSS integrated as I❤️ Tailwind!)🛠 Maintaining Flexirest a really flexible Ruby library for accessing Rest APIs in an ActiveModel like style.🤝 Mentoring those more junior in the industry to achieve their goals in tech and development (reach out via Twitter if you are interested)😄 My pronouns are he/him⚡ Fun fact: Aside from being a techie, I'm also a 7th Dan black belt in Taekwondo and instructor of a successful club in my hometown.
💬 Let's collaborate
I'm always open to conversations about collaboration if it helps give value to both sides.
- Backend development: Ruby on Rails, Golang
- Databases: MySQL, Redis (and PostgreSQL if I have to)
- Hosting: Kubernetes, Docker containers, PaaS
- Business: Tech leadership, SaaS launches, entrepreneurship
💬 About me
I'm not looking for a new role at the moment (so if you just want to get in touch about that, thanks anyway, but no thanks). However I do keep my CV online so if you want to know more about my experience... https://cv.andyjeffries.co.uk
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/andyjeffries
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyjeffries/
- Personal blog: https://www.andyjeffries.co.uk (mostly Taekwondo related)
- I have a bunch of other social media too, but they are mostly just used by friends and family