A strong technical leader and executive with a consistent history of leading product and engineering teams to deliverer scalable, reliable, cost effective cloud based platforms and products.
A long background in applied, hands on technical architecture and management means that I am perfectly placed to help drive start ups and early stage technology and product teams through the chaos of new product development and delivery.
I have repeatedly grown nascent product and development teams from 0 to over 120 people, winning multiple industry awards along the way and, more importantly, delivering multi million pound new revenue streams to the companies I have worked for.
I am a passionate believer in delivering value early and often by encouraging a "flow" based delivery culture based on continuous delivery, small feedback loops and active learning.
Specialties: pragmatic product delivery, corporate strategy, commercial delivery, technical vision and management, corporate culture, distributed systems, architecture, cloud, gaming, sports betting, data analytics
CTO @ From February 2015 to Present (11 months) Founder @ From April 2014 to February 2015 (11 months) CTO @ CTO of Sporting Solutions, the B2B data and real time sports pricing division of the Sporting Index Group.
I came up with the concept for Connect, the cloud based real time sports pricing and analytics system that forms the basis of the Sporting Solutions product suite. I designed and built the platform; taking it from a standing start to become a platform that is used by many of the worlds leading, tier 1, bookmakers. From March 2011 to April 2014 (3 years 2 months) London, United KingdomChief Architect @ From June 2009 to March 2011 (1 year 10 months) Architect @ From September 2006 to May 2009 (2 years 9 months) Engineering Manager @ Co-founded Betfair's main overseas development centre. Built an award winning 120+ man development centre from scratch. From September 2006 to May 2009 (2 years 9 months) Founder @ Start up focussing on using biological and autonomic principles to manage and scale large distributed systems. From August 2006 to January 2009 (2 years 6 months) Head of Platform Engineering @ Responsible for development of core Intamission product. Patented evolutionary class technology makes this the most flexible SOA offering on the market. From September 2005 to August 2006 (1 year) Senior Developer/Architect @ Headed up the New Platforms technical development team at GCAP. Responsible for DAB (Digital Audio Broadcast) R&D and development.
Distributed systems development using Java, Jini, Web Services.
Developed connections into SMSC using SMPP. From February 2002 to August 2005 (3 years 7 months)
Ewan Silver is skilled in: Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Business Strategy, Architecture, Corporate Culture, REST, Start-ups, Agile Methodologies, Web Services, Java, Management, Software Development, System Architecture, SOA, Architectures