About · Tyneside Software
Side project on Tyneside.
Day job: Cloud Connect.
Mentoring, building, a bit of good.
Tyneside is the thing I do in the evenings because I love building teams, mentoring, and writing new bits of software. Once a week, five or six hours, we sit down and make it real — so university students and my own children get genuine commercial experience. Fun is part of the brief.
The weekday career. Tyneside sits beside it.
CTO & Co-Founder. Invoice and document data capture at scale — 50k+ invoices/year customers. ~£600k ARR with strong growth. This is the day job. Separate company from Tyneside.
Head of Engineering at CloudTrade at the 2021 sale to Advanced. Hands-on product and engineering leadership in document automation and commercial delivery.
Ex-Head of Engineering — running engineering organisations, delivery discipline, and technical direction at scale.
Born Seaham, 1992. Neurodivergent. The long game is still the North East — capability, mentoring, a little prosperity passed on.
An evening project. Day jobs, courses, and school stay in place. We grow as the work asks.
Through my own experience — and my children’s — I have some insight into the differing needs of neurodivergent people. We don’t discriminate: everyone is welcome. We are creating a space where we can be ourselves and think differently.
Mentoring only works if the work is real. Live sites, real tools, the odd paying job if it fits the hours. University students who want commercial experience, and my own children, building in public rather than on paper.
Welcome-home cleans for new parents, local cleaning work, kit when we have it. We are pushing that forward.
Building teams. Mentoring. New software. Paid work is welcome. Fun is part of the brief.
One evening a week, five or six hours. If this needs more of us, it will be because the work asked.
Day job. Separate legal company. Cloud Connect is the weekday work; Tyneside is the evening project.
Helps organisations that need to pull data from 50,000+ invoices a year (and similar document volumes). High volume, messy documents, real accuracy requirements.
Competes hard on flexibility and accuracy.
Leads and introductions welcome — that is the commercial work.
Want to sit in an evening, have a small piece of work that might fit, or a Cloud Connect introduction — WhatsApp first; email if you prefer (slower).
WhatsApp · +44 7411 949215