Tristan Phillips

Chief Technology Officer at Money Guided

London, England, United Kingdom

About

With over 25 years of experience, I'm a passionate developer, team leader, mentor, and senior leader with a proven track record of building and scaling high-performing teams and development processes. I possess deep expertise in software architecture, including Microservices, Web API, C#, .NET Core, Databases, AWS, Flutter, & Vue.js. I'm driven by the challenge of architecting innovative and scalable software solutions, enabling growth while maintaining efficiency. Throughout my career, I've successfully built offshore development teams from scratch, fostering a collaborative environment that thrives under expansion. I'm adept at identifying areas for improvement, implementing elegant and sustainable architectures that leverage modern technologies, and ensuring efficient workflows even as teams and projects grow. I have a proven track record of successfully transitioning monolithic to modern architecture while consistently exceeding business demands.

Experience

  • Chief Technology Officer at Money Guided
    Feb 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

    Currently serving as a Hands-on CTO, leading the development of a complex Financial Assistant Application leveraging Open Banking & AI. Technologies span Microservices, C#, .NET Core, AWS, Flutter, Vue.js, Web API, Bedrock.

  • Salary Finance (2 yrs 11 mos)
    • CTO
      Jul 2019 - Feb 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Scaling the local and remote dev/qa teams that I set up as head of engineering. Continuing to evolve the platform architecture and AWS implementation. Concentrating on rapid scaling techniques and best practices to maintain a healthy working dynamic and velocity. Assumed responsibility for both IT support, data and security teams. Representing technology at c-level.

    • Head Of Engineering
      Apr 2018 - Jul 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Setting the company's platform migration strategy away from a monolithic application and designing & building the new architecture. Service-oriented containerised platform hosted in AWS. Docker, .net core, VueJS, Restful Web APIs. Building a local team of software engineers and implementing best practices. Building a team of remote engineers in Mumbai.

  • CTO at AllBright
    Sep 2017 - Apr 2018 · 8 mos

  • Mars Capital (2 yrs 9 mos)
    • Contract Software Developer
      Jan 2017 - Sep 2017 · 9 mos

      Building the company's global data platform using C#, MVC, Angular, Web API & SQL Server.

    • Development Manager / Architect (Hands On)
      Jan 2015 - Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Brought on board to transform the existing small development team into a group of professional software engineers. Responsible for re-designing the existing systems and implementing best practices across architecture, development, test and deployment. Built the team from 2 junior developers to a team of 5. Introduced an entirely new N-Tier architecture along with Agile, Source control (Git), TeamCity, Web Services, jQuery, Bootstrap, Angular, MVC, TDD.

  • Tech Startup (1 yr 8 mos)
    • Chief Systems Architect
      Apr 2014 - Dec 2014 · 9 mos

      Building from the ground up. Embedded Linux, Xamarin, C#, LINQ, MySQL, WebServices, Ajax, Bootstrap, iOS, Android, Glass.

    • Contract Software Developer
      May 2013 - Apr 2014 · 1 yr

      Working on full software stack from ARM & Now MIPS32 processor to Web services and UI. Very exciting project which will result in a great product! C# .NET Services backend, MySql Server, C on the embedded side with OpenWrt. Ajax, Bootstrap.