C. Oliver Godby
About Me
Software Engineering is, and has been for the last twenty-four years, a truly rewarding way for me to contribute to a wide variety of businesses and organisations in a very positive manner. At the heart of my understanding of what I do, is the idea that by bringing my skills to bear I can solve problems and create opportunities for the people I work with to achieve the goals laid out for the organisation that we are helping to build together.
The greatest feeling in my working life is shipping code that my team and I can be proud of, not only in the moment but moving forward into the journey of evolving and maintaining our applications in the most efficient and agile way, empowering us to continue to bring value and make a tangible, positive impact on the success of our shared enterprise.
Beyond that, I love the process of collaborating with commercial and creative people to carry an idea from specification, into launch and then ongoing development by leveraging the exciting and powerful technologies, both proven and emerging, that are now at our disposal in this dynamic skill space.
Education
University of Kent at Canterbury 1996
BA Hons English and American Literature
Work & Experience
Incentive Games 10/21/2024 - 03/28/2025
Software Architect
As a member of the Architecture Team, I worked on a variety of projects, preparing the ground for Engineering Teams to start new internal and new customer defined devlopment projects, within the accumulated best practices of the existing Incentive Games framework.
AND Digital (Glasgow) 09/11/2023 - 10/18/2024
Technical Pincipal
As a Technical Principal and member of the Practice Group, my responsibilities and workload are wide and varied. From working on Client Engagements as a senior technologist, supporting the Technical side of Delivery Teams in whatever way necessary, fostering Best Practice and Continuous Learning within the Club and also cooperating with other Technical Principals and other Practice Group ANDis across the Business to do my part in ensuring that we have the best possible technical outcomes for our Clients and our Company During my time at AND I have worked on a large engagement with The U.K. Cabinet Office (on Find a Grant), assisted on a number of bids and proposals, met with potential clients in a Technical Advisory capacity (assisting the Club Exec), provided mentoring and coaching to fellow Technical ANDis, become involved with the Software Engineering Chapter and coordinated internal "bench" activities, including providing oversight and mentoring for two major internal training initiatives.
Sidekick Money Ltd 03/06/2023 - 06/30/2023
Staff Engineer
My role at Sidekick Money was to contribute to API development for the back end services driving the Sidekick platform, as well as contributing to the ongoing technical design.
Grail BioTech 12/12/2022 - 02/24/2023
Staff Engineer
My role at Grail, as a Senior Staff Engineer has been to contribute to API and UI development on an internal project for laboratory automation, as well as providing mentoring and counsel on all matters pertaining to Software Engineering and Best Practice for the team.
Kleene.ai 03/21/2022 - 12/23/2022
Head of Data Engineering
My role at Kleene was about a mixture of team leadership, delivering on productivity targets and innovating on the Data Ingest / Engineering side of the technical group. I managed a team of Engineers that worked on connecting to 3rd Party Data on behalf of Kleene's clients, prepare that data, back up a canonical copy of it and insert the data into the client's Data Warehouse. My team was predominantly working in the Batch ELT space, and I also worked with the other Tech Leaders to drive the overall software architecture ensuring that the company made sustainable and compatible choices across its application estate.
Cervest Ltd. 04/17/2017 - 03/11/2022
Head of Platform & Systems Engineering
Having joined Cervest in 2017 as the first practical technologist, I worked to shape the technical direction of the company throughout its growth and continued to do so throughout my tenure as a key member of the Technology leadership Team, and as a department / discipline lead in Infrastructure and Systems Engineering. My team (at the time I left the company) was responsible both for the running infrastructure that we needed to conduct our business, and the development of software needed to bring together the Data Science and Data Engineering functions by building applications and APIs to integrate the two and by building tooling for each of the other two Disciplines. Working in diverse domains concerning GeoSpatial Data, Climate Data, Data Science Pipelines, Message / Event Systems, Data Systems, Data Bases and the APIs that drive data through the Cervest Platform, my team plays a vital role in the ongoing design and execution of the Technical life of the business.