Shaun Underwood

I’m a hands-on CTO with a engineering background and 20+ years’ experience.

My experience naturally allows me to take up existing projects, and start green field projects from scratch.

Skills

ReactJS, NodeJS, AWS, Serverless, Typescript, Python, SQL, Mongo, Process Improvement, CICD, automations, gitlab, Agile, Scrum, Basecamp, Kanban, Jest, Git

Strengths

I’ve introduced agile workflows and championed continual learning and full-stack development, especially in blockchain knowledge.  In doing so I’ve increase talent retention, productivity, improved devx and company resilience in cases of illness or departures.

Fantastec Sports Technology Ltd

Chief Technology Officer, November 2020 – present, remote full-time

Achievements

• Reduced monthly running costs from £24k->£1k
• World’s first mobile app for Flow blockchain
• Migration of 150k users and 3m NFT assets from private to public Flow blockchain
• Reduced NFT minting from days to zero
• Full architecture redesign
• Reduction in app response times from 5+s to <0.5s

Responsibilities

• As part of C-Team to project manage tech team, ensure communication flows between Product, Tech and Commercial
• Staffing levels, hiring new fulltime and contractual staff
• Ensuring the mentoring of more junior engineers
• Project management through agile techniques, from conception to execution and maintenance
• Compliance with GDPR and market regulatory requirements for crypto assets

2:1 Software Engineering BSc