Become a great technical leader
Personalised mentoring, courses, and workplace training. I help technical experts become technical leaders.
>25years
Writing code
>15years
Leading teams
>1000
Engineers mentored
Code is the easy part now
AI writes decent code. That's table stakes. The hard part was always understanding the user, the problem, and what the business actually needs. Most of us skipped that work when we could hide behind a keyboard. You can't any more.
- Talk to users. Understand what they need, not what they ask for.
- Explain technical trade-offs to people who don't care about the tech
- Know why you're building something before you build it
- Your team is scared about AI. Help them figure out where they fit.
- Stop defaulting to code as the answer to every problem
What I do
Fractional CTO
I work with startups and scale-ups as their technical leader, without the full-time cost. Strategy, architecture, team building.
02Training
Workshops and programs for engineering teams. I teach leadership skills, soft skills, and run tailored coaching for organisations.
03Coaching
Private 1:1 mentoring for engineers stepping into leadership. I help you figure out the transition from writing code to leading people.
04Speaking
Keynotes, workshops, and panels on technical leadership and the soft skills that actually matter.
05Tech Leaders Launchpad
The platform and community I built to make the tech leadership journey less painful and more fun.
06Debugging Leadership
A 10-sprint kanban-based program. Pull tasks, track progress, ship improvements. Built by an engineer, for engineers.
Trusted by
Kind words
“Andrew has a great presence and is able to engage and inspire with an understated confidence. He easily guided the team from brainstorming through to actions ensuring that all ideas and outcomes were owned by the team.”
“Andrew is one of the very few people in the industry that really understand the value of effective communication between businesses and technology, whilst able to demonstrate a breadth of knowledge within technical skills.”
About
I started writing code on a ZX Spectrum as a kid. Over 25 years I went from software developer to manager to lead to head geek, technical leadership coach, and public speaker.
A brilliant technical mind is great, but writing better code isn't the answer as we progress in our careers. We need the soft skills too. Most of us just ignore them.
Through workshops, 1:1 coaching, group mentoring, and public speaking, I help people understand the real role of a technical leader.