Rowan Laurence
GCP CertifiedCTO & Technical Director
Chief Technology Officer at Hyphen Social · London
Experienced Technical Director and Architect specialising in highly 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. Expert in delivering complex systems while explaining them in a manner palatable for 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 leveraging serverless and cutting-edge technology.
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 cutting-edge products at Google-level security. Expert in GCP, AppEngine, Kubernetes, Cloud Run, BigQuery, 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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