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Ian Marlow

Lead Developer

Shipping great software and growing the team that builds it

[email protected]
github.com/ianmarlow
linkedin.com/in/ian-marlow-dev

Lead developer with fourteen years building software, the last six leading development teams for a SaaS company in Manchester. Owns technical direction and delivery for a product team — architecting solutions, setting standards, reviewing code, mentoring developers, and still shipping serious code himself. Led the re-architecture of a monolith into services that improved scalability and let the team ship far faster. Balances hands-on engineering with leadership: sprint planning, technical decisions, hiring, and being the calm point when production breaks. Strong across full-stack development, cloud and modern practices, and good at growing developers and keeping quality high under delivery pressure. Pragmatic about trade-offs. Looking for a lead-developer, engineering-lead or principal-engineer role with a team building a product worth caring about.

Work Experience

Manchester SaaS Group - Manchester, UK

Lead Developer April 2016 to Present 10 years & 3 months

Own the technical direction and delivery for a product team while still actively shipping code myself.
Led the re-architecture of a monolith into services that improved scalability and shipping speed.
Architect the solutions, set the engineering standards and review the code across the whole team.
Mentor and grow all the developers and run all the sprint planning and the technical decisions.
Lead the hiring and stay the calm point of contact when production breaks at night.
Balance the quality and the delivery pressure across all of the full-stack and the cloud work.

North West Software Ltd - Manchester, UK

Senior Software Developer August 2008 to March 2016 7 years & 8 months

Built the full-stack features and services across the company's web products.
Progressed to senior, mentoring the developers and leading the larger components.
Learned the architecture, the cloud and modern delivery practices on the job.
Gained the certification and then moved up into a lead-developer role.

North West Software Ltd - Manchester, UK

Software Developer June 2006 to July 2008 2 years & 2 months

Built web applications and features as a developer in a product team.
Learned solid coding, testing and version control on real production systems.
Built the engineering foundation that senior and lead roles rest on.
Then earned the move into a senior software-developer role from there.
Education

University of Manchester

BSc (Hons) Software Engineering (September 2005 to June 2008)

Software engineering degree covering development, architecture and systems, with a placement year. The placement led into a development career. Built the engineering foundation behind technical leadership.

AWS / Scrum.org

Cloud Architecture & Agile Leadership Certification (January 2015 to June 2015)

Certification in cloud architecture and agile leadership covering scalable systems and team delivery. It formalised the architecture and leadership used daily. Applied directly to the services re-architecture and team.
Highlights

Monolith to services

Led the re-architecture of a monolith into services that improved scalability and let the team ship far faster. A cleaner architecture pays the team back on every release afterwards.

Leads and still builds

Stays hands-on shipping code while leading direction, standards and the people on the team. Engineers respect a lead who can still do the work alongside them.
Key Projects

Platform Scalability Rebuild

Lead Developer (January 2019 to October 2019)

Re-platformed the product's core services for scale, introducing queueing and caching so it handled a tenfold growth in load without the outages it used to suffer.

CI/CD & Developer Tooling

Lead Developer (February 2020 to July 2020)

Built out the CI/CD pipeline and the developer tooling for the team, cutting the time from commit to production and letting engineers ship confidently several times a day.
Activities & Interests
Snow Boarding
Bowling
Archery
Football
Dreaming
Certifications

Cloud Architecture & Agile Leadership

AWS / Scrum.org (June 2015 to Present)

Certification in cloud architecture and agile leadership covering scalable systems and team delivery. It formalised the architecture and leadership used daily. Applied directly to the services re-architecture and team.

Kubernetes & Microservices

CNCF (April 2019 to Present)

Certification in Kubernetes and microservices architecture. It supports the services re-architecture and the scalable, cloud-native systems the team now ships across the product.
Professional Skills
  • Software Architecture
  • Full-Stack Development
  • Technical Leadership
  • Code Review & Standards
  • Cloud (AWS)
  • Microservices
  • Agile Delivery
  • Mentoring
  • CI/CD
  • System Design
Personal Info

Location

Manchester, UK

Nationality

British

Gender

Male

Notice Period

1 month

Date of Birth

1988-05-12
Personal Skills

Leadership

Problem Solving

Communication

Pragmatism

Composure

Langauges

English (UK)

Native or Bilingual Proficiency

German

Limited Working Proficiency

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