Andy Norton

VP of Engineering

Preston, England, United Kingdom18 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

Expert in building high-performing engineering teams.
Led successful digital transformations across multiple organizations.
Strong advocate for lean agile and DevOps practices.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS engineering leader with a strong focus on team development and digital transformation.

Contact

andy.norton@flipdish.com LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

Software Project ManagementContinuous IntegrationIT StrategyDistributed SystemsCloud ComputingArchitectureSolution ArchitectureSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)StrategyIntegrationASP.NET MVC.NETSQLASP.NETMicrosoft SQL Server

About

I’ve worked at organisations both big and small and truly believe the unit of delivery is the team, I have a keen focus on helping people grow, building communities, product thinking and pragmatic approaches based around lean agile and DevOps practices!

Experience

18 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Notion

Notion Ambassador

Jan 2026 – Present · 5 mos · Remote

Flipdish

2 roles

VP of Engineering

Promoted

Aug 2025 – Present · 10 mos

Director of Engineering

Jun 2024 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

Fast flow conf

Co-organiser

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

I help organise the Fast Flow Conference for Team Topologies in London - the talks are all on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@fastflowconf

Team topologies

TTA

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

I joined Team Topologies as an advocate, partly due to the Team Topologies case study from my time at Footasylum

Prolific

Senior Engineering Manager

Dec 2022 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Remote

I joined Prolific as a senior engineering manager to help build teams of high-performing, happy engineers working on real customer problems. During my time I led initiatives to build a career development framework, architecture modernisation and an operating model for engineering.

Cinch

Head of Engineering Practice

Jul 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Manchester, England, United Kingdom

I led the Engineering Practice at cinch, where my focus was on building high performing teams with a serverless first approach. Our work was featured as a part of the AWS re:Invent keynote by Werner Vogels in 2022 and became a case study on AWS's blog

Footasylum

Head of Engineering

Jul 2019 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs · Rochdale, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

I was brought in to lead the engineering team at Footasylum and build multi-disciplinary teams as part of a digital transformation, we rolled out a complete overhaul of our instore technology, a migration from on-premise servers to Microsoft Azure, and built a brand new version of the Footasylum loyalty system. We used techniques such as Wardley Mapping to understand our situational awareness and make a solid strategy for modernisation built on the principle of 'rent, buy, then build'

Graham & brown

Technical Architect

Jan 2015 – Jul 2019 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Blackburn, United Kingdom

I joined during a digital transformation from using 1980s style green screen ERPs to building an engineering team that moved to the cloud, removing legacy technology across the org and enabling a fit for the future technology estate