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Miles Woodroffe

Bristol, UK

Rails hacker. 10 years in startups in SF as coder and/or CTO, then 7 years in Japan. Currently CTO at Cookpad in Bristol UK. Experience bootstrapping, lean startup, coding, scaling to tens of millions, hiring, being acquired...

Prior music career in rock-n-roll, toured the world - insanely lucky to work with artists from Bob Dylan to Ray Charles to The Specials to Joe Strummer.

$10.00/min

Miles donates to The Myton Hospices ($107.56)

8 Calls

6 Reviews

33 minutes
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Ruby on Rails Lean Startups Rails Technology Leadership Cooking Agile Development Team Leadership Music Japanese culture TDD

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Ruby on Rails

Full stack developer. I've worked with Rails since 2006 in several companies, from small startups to huge established companies. Particularly love quick MVP's and iterating with customers from there

Technology Leadership

Built and lead several engineering teams from the ground up, with a hands on, sleeves rolled-up approach.
Founded and run the #tokyorails meetup, a network of 300+ Rails professionals and enthusiasts.

Music - Live and Studio Engineer

Toured the world and recorded with The Specials for 5 years in late 90s. When based in LA, I was lucky to work with Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, BB King, Joe Strummer to name just a few.

Working in Japan

I've been living in Japan for several years. Love the country, history, culture, people - everything! Give me a call and learn from my mistakes if you plan to live and/or work in this fantastic place!

Lean Startup

Been practicing lean startup methodologies formally and informally for years - common sense FTW!

Bootstrapping and Scaling

Built or re-built teams and products from scratch. Love the challenges creating modern internet services

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Great to speak with such a seasoned entrepreneur. He gave me some great insight about how to continue to hire the best of the best when it comes to developers. So grateful for this call.

Tracy Simmons Source: Clarity

Miles is a seasoned technology exec and is very open with sharing his process with hiring key engineering roles throughout his career.

Khang Toh Source: Clarity

A very approachable and down-to-earth guy. Miles made some interesting suggestions which may prove quite helpful in terms of the direction I decide to take with my idea. Hope we talk again. Thanks, Miles

Mark Hayes Source: Clarity

Miles loves to talk start-ups and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table (technical, commercial and practical). Having just shared a couple of ideas with Miles, I now feel a lot more confident about what I should be doing next!

Ben Ridgway Source: Clarity

Miles is super nice and smart! Highly recommend a call with him.

Dan Martell Source: Clarity

Miles pulled off a technology turn-around at Insider Pages. When I hired him he inherited a mess of spaghetti code that broke every time we released, a tech team in disarray, and an ops architecture woefully unsuited to handle the millions of visitors we were getting each month. Two years later we've got a very strong Agile/XP dev team (hired and developed by Miles), a super fast app running off a beautiful code base with excellent test coverage, and a scalable, very efficiently run ops infrastructure. He's fostered an environment where developers love to work and where velocity is high. Miles inspires and leads by example. He never asks anyone to do anything he wouldn't do himself - and always rolls up his sleeves to help out. He has a keen knack for identifying and removing the hurdles that might get in his team's way - and in doing so, he helps every member of the team be more successful. A great CTO is not only someone who can build, hire and inspire an excellent technology team, but also someone who deeply understands the drivers of the business. Miles understood the business as well as I did and never took his eye off of profitably growing the business. You can count on him to be a thought partner who thinks about a lot more than just technology and a great human being who is a pleasure to be around. He is the best I've worked with and I hope to get the chance to do it again.

Eric Peacock Source: LinkedIn

Member since January 2012