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Andrew Carr

Andrew Carr

Summary

Head of Engineering / Principal Engineer who has over 25 years experience leading technical teams in Financial Services and Telecomms.


Driven and passionate and have won awards for delivery, and people management.


Specialising in Data Engineering (including Stream & Batch processing) and back end systems.

Overview

31
31
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Engineering Director / Head of Consultancy

Scott Logic
Bristol
06.2016 - Current
  • Turned around a demoralised department of 30 developers, testers, architects and Principal Engineers (with attrition rate of 4 people a week) and turned it into a high performing department and grew to over 100 people (and reduced attrition rate to 5% per year)
  • Involved in hundreds of sales meeting as Technical Pre-Sales and then promoted to Director of Financial Services
  • Introduced Active Listening training to Scott Logic as a whole to enhanced requirements gathering skills
  • Kicked off Data Engineering study group to support the increasing interest in Data Engineering and technologies. Encouraged question asking by always asking basic questions to bring psychological safety to the group. Started off office wide, then rolled out to the whole company due to demand
  • Enhanced hiring process to include competency questions looking for drive & collaboration as key skills
  • Hired 100 individuals, promoted 20
  • Acted as Solution Architect for a number of clients including Goldman Sachs, Natwest, Bank of America, Home Office on microservices / distributed architectures and technologies such as Kafka, ActiveMQ, Cassandra, Apache Spark, MongoDB, Postgres
  • Promoted 3 times, to Principal, Head of and finally to Director


CTO & Co-founder

Claritize
Bath
08.2012 - 06.2016
  • Co-founded Claritize and hired a team of 20 to build a Big Data Mining solution using Apache Spark, Kafka, Postgres, Cassandra, Java
  • Architected and involved in writing Java Apache Spark jobs, both batch processes and streaming using Spark 1.6
  • Developed relationships with clients - RBS/Citigroup/EE and a host of smaller companies to do trials with Claritize to automatically find anomalies, trends and correlations

Executive Director

Goldman Sachs
London
02.2010 - 01.2012
  • Led a tech team and support team of 10 which looked after Program Trading (Shares) low latency Java/C++/Sybase trading system
  • Significantly improved the up-time of the Front Office Trading Software by identifying memory leaks in purify
  • Enhancement the Integration testing approach by introducing Data Aging process
  • Introduced CI/CD pipeline to speed up build and rollout, and automated testing to bring release time down from a couple of weeks to 2 hours
  • Managed senior business stakeholders including the Head of Desk

CTO & Co-founder

Adtimize
London
02.2009 - 02.2010
  • Co-founded a Consumer Aware Digital signage startup, hiring a tech team of 6
  • Built digital signage software using VLC, Java, Hibernate, MySQL

Java/C++ Consultant (Contractor)

Goldman Sachs
London
12.2006 - 03.2009
  • Migrated Java & C++ applications from Solaris to Linux
  • Wrote new features in Java & C++ for front office trading applications
  • Embedded a day a week in support team for the Trading Desk

Tech Lead

Citigroup
London
03.2004 - 12.2006
  • Introduced iterative development to speed up releases
  • Led a tech team of 10 and a support team of 4 to provide a Bond Trading Platform in C++/Java, Sybase to hundreds of internal users

Tech Lead

Airbus UK
Newport, Pembrokeshire
02.2002 - 02.2004
  • Led a £4m dev project to produce a Java J2EE based Network Management System and Asset Management system for an advanced deployable network
  • Introduced requirements sessions with the MOD to ensure requirements were properly understood
  • Turned around a project running 2 years late with a demoralised team of 20 by introducing iterative drops instead of Waterfall
  • Awarded with Airbus Gold Award for exemplary project delivery

Tech Manager

Nortel Networks
Vancouver
01.1999 - 12.2001
  • Led a team of 10 Java developers of an analytics system for VoIP networks
  • Application processed large volumes of CDRs in real time
  • Received “Top Talent” badge from CEO and promoted

Tech Lead

Cambridge Technology Partners
London
01.1998 - 01.1999
  • Led a team of 8 developers to build a C++ Annuity Payments system

Graduate Developer

Nortel Networks
London
09.1994 - 12.1998
  • Developed features in C++, received highest rating & promoted

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
09.1991 - 09.1994

Skills

Nigel Wilson -

"Working with Andrew was a great experience His calm and considered nature always brought a fresh and balanced perspective to the conversation


It's rare to find someone not only with a deep passion for the tech, industry and the people, but who is also good at translating that passion into action Andrew knows how to build and develop people and teams and provide knowledgeable and practical sector and technology recommendations"


Ellie Hield -

"Andrew is a driven and enthusiastic leader with a passion for building strong client relationships He is always seeking to promote and improve those working around and under him and strives to get the best out of people, always believing people have something to offer He has very strong communication skills which he uses to great effect both internally and with clients!"


Patrick Bishop -

"Picture a Venn diagram with 3 intersecting circles of deep expertise: technology, business people Most of us know plenty of people who sit within at least one, if not two of those circles Andrew however is one of those very rare people who sits right at the centre of that picture


He is an extremely talented and truly passionate technologist, consultant and architect Not only does he have a knack of getting to the root of a problem very quickly, but can communicate extremely complex concepts in very simple terms Simple as these seem, these skills are very hard to find I've lost count of the number of times I've heard someone respond with 'well, that is a great question'


Above all else though, Andrew is an incredibly enthusiastic, genuine and friendly guy who not only wants to help people around him, but will ensure that everyone around him does succeed"


Timeline

Engineering Director / Head of Consultancy

Scott Logic
06.2016 - Current

CTO & Co-founder

Claritize
08.2012 - 06.2016

Executive Director

Goldman Sachs
02.2010 - 01.2012

CTO & Co-founder

Adtimize
02.2009 - 02.2010

Java/C++ Consultant (Contractor)

Goldman Sachs
12.2006 - 03.2009

Tech Lead

Citigroup
03.2004 - 12.2006

Tech Lead

Airbus UK
02.2002 - 02.2004

Tech Manager

Nortel Networks
01.1999 - 12.2001

Tech Lead

Cambridge Technology Partners
01.1998 - 01.1999

Graduate Developer

Nortel Networks
09.1994 - 12.1998

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Newcastle University
09.1991 - 09.1994
Andrew Carr