Rowan Laurence
GCP CertifiedCTO & Technical Director
Chief Technology Officer at Hyphen Social · London
Technical director and architect specialising in scalable, highly available systems. Background in world-leading publishing systems and ecommerce at cloud scale. Projects seen and used by millions of people every day. Good at delivering complex systems and explaining the trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
15+
Years' leadership
Millions
Daily Users
60+
Technical Skills
1.7K
LinkedIn Followers
Experience
Chief Technology Officer
Hyphen Social
Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos
Engineering Director
Checkatrade.com
Sep 2020 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos
Built modern cloud-native, event-driven architecture on GCP using serverless tools.
Director Of Engineering
Beyond
Mar 2017 – Jul 2020 · 3 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco
Consulted for Google, Snap!, Facebook, CTCP and ABI. Technical lead across Google projects, delivering products to Google security standards. Expert in GCP, AppEngine, Kubernetes, Cloud Run, BigQuery and BigTable.
Lead Technical Architect
Wowcher
Apr 2014 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 10 mos
Rebuilt deals stack using service-based architecture with Play Framework, Elastic Search, and AWS. Delivered in 8 months with 3 developers, achieving all KPIs.
Global Technical Director
Beyond
Jul 2012 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · London
Clients: Facebook, Apple, YouTube, Google, GE, Mail Online, UBS, NSPCC, ChildLine, Novartis, Amadeus, 3mobile, Virgin.
Notable clients
Apple
Snap!
Virgin
UBS
Technical expertise
Cloud & Infrastructure
Architecture & Development
What colleagues say
"Rowan was a leader you wanted to work for. His level of knowledge is insane - he can drop into teams, instantly understand what is going on, spot potential issues, get everyone excited about the project. I will remember him as one of my favourite managers."
Ivan Gutowski-Smith
Automated Software Test Engineer, Checkatrade
"Working with Rowan has been a pleasure. I now have a much better knowledge how to build technology to empower a business. Building a culture of empowering teams with tech. I would work with him anywhere and any time."
Jens Skott
Platform Engineer / SRE
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