Graham Jones

CTO

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom22 yrs 9 mos experience

AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years of experience in software engineering leadership.
Proven track record in building high-performing teams.
Expertise in AI/ML integration and fintech solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a FinTech and SaaS expert with extensive experience in AI-driven solutions.

Contact

jonesgp3419@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Large Language Models (llm)Early-stage StartupsTechnical LeadershipSoftware As A Service (saas)Data EngineeringSoftware DevelopmentElectronic Trading SystemsFinancial Technology

Other Skills

API DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAirflowAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnalyticsApplied Machine LearningArchitectureBashBig DataBudget ManagementBusiness DevelopmentC++C-LevelC-Level LeadershipCassandra

About

Hands-on CTO and chief software engineer with 20+ years of experience building mission-critical teams and solutions for startups, scale ups and global names alike. Proven track record of enabling high-performing (and happy) teams to ship robust, scalable, and innovative solutions on time while maintaining the highest standards of quality and usability. Strategic leader with deep expertise in Python, C, C++, Docker, UNIX, cloud-native architecture, AI/ML integration, big data analytics, fintech, and low-latency systems.

Experience

Solirius reply

Head of AI Applications Practice

Aug 2025 – Present · 7 mos · London, United Kingdom

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Large Language Models (LLM)Python

Product seed

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Edinburgh, United Kingdom · Remote

• Co-founded Product Seed, reimagining Product Management by uniting Product and Sales to drive growth.

PythonArtificial Intelligence (AI)Early-Stage StartupsAmazon Web Services (AWS)

Brainnwave

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder

Sep 2015 – Nov 2024 · 9 yrs 2 mos · Edinburgh, United Kingdom · Hybrid

Co-founded and scaled Brainnwave into a leader in AI-powered decision intelligence.
Architected and led the development of an award-winning decision intelligence platform, powering SaaS solutions for 30+ enterprise clients.
Oversaw all day-to-day aspects of software development, DevOps, database, and data science workflows, with direct hands-on development of the most critical components in Python, Go, and TypeScript.
Built high-performance engineering teams: recruited and mentored exceptional technical talent, fostering a culture of excellence, autonomy and responsibility; maintained a 4.8 Glassdoor score over nine years.
Directed a £2 million annual technology budget, ensuring optimal resource allocation for scalable, high-impact solutions.
Drove enterprise growth: secured twelve FTSE 250 and S&P 400 level client logos, delivering multi-million-pound revenue through strategic client partnerships.

PythonMentoringNatural Language Processing (NLP)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Amazon Web Services (AWS)MLOps+24

Agile zebra

Consulting Software Engineer

Mar 2009 – Sep 2015 · 6 yrs 6 mos · Remote

Developed high-performance distributed search and analytics engines capable of searching and analysing a one trillion message data mine of over 2 petabytes.
Developed a distributed Twitter Firehose receiver that can read over 10,000 messages a second from Twitter, annotate them with multiple metrics and indicators, and index each tweet in real-time.
Designed and implemented relations graph analysis database for a DARPA research project.

PythonLow LatencyCassandraMentoringNatural Language Processing (NLP)Redis+27

Bloomberg

Head of European Exchange Feeds, Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2002 – Dec 2008 · 6 yrs 3 mos · London, United Kingdom and Sydney, Australia · On-site

Designed and led the development of Bloomberg’s market data feed framework. The framework is used throughout Bloomberg to handle all feeds from stock exchanges, routing over 16 billion market events per day with peaks of over 2 million messages per second.
Headed up the European Exchange Feeds group, managing the two teams responsible for all European exchange feeds, news feeds and trading interface systems.

PythonMarket DataLow LatencyElectronic Trading SystemsFinancial TechnologyMentoring+27

Acxiom

Chief Software Architect

Jan 1995 – Sep 2001 · 6 yrs 8 mos · London, United Kingdom and Sydney, Australia · On-site

Successfully secured and implemented a £20 million contract from Vodafone for a "single customer view" data warehouse.
Set up Acxiom Australia as Chief Architect and founding member of the company leadership team.
Led the implementation of Acxiom Australia’s technical infrastructure, including the international version of Abilitec.

UnixData InfrastructureBig DataTeam DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipC+++5