Colin Howe

Head of Engineering EMEA

Ashby

Jul 2025 - Current (1 year 2 months)

Coach, advisor and mentor

Various Startups

Nov 2018 - Current (7 years 10 months)

Director Of Engineering

Ashby

May 2022 - Jul 2025 (3 years 3 months)

Building Ashby, the all-in-one recruiting product that consolidates your ATS, CRM, Scheduling, and Analytics into a single solution – all with best in breed functionality and seamless UX.

Interim Head Of Engineering

Prolific

Oct 2020 - Sep 2021 (1 year)

Prolific is a SaaS marketplace for enabling research. During my time as head of engineering I rebuilt the hiring process and grew the engineering team from 7 to 21 whilst also putting in place the right supporting structures to enable the team to thrive. Whilst mostly a hands-off role I was also involved in technical architecture, design, code review and from time-to-time I paired with engineers to help them develop their skills.

CTO

Juggle Jobs

May 2017 - Oct 2018 (1 year 6 months)

Gender equality in the workplace has been proven to increase business performance, and our vision at Juggle Jobs is to ensure 50% of all business leaders are women within 10 years. Juggle is a full service online platform which identifies, places and manages high quality professionals for businesses. As well as matching our members to great companies, we make it incredibly easy to contract on a flexible basis, solving many of the admin headaches via our online platform. In 2017 we'll also be expanding on our investment in their personal development through coaching and peer-to-peer mentoring. Having worked in Professional Recruitment for nearly a decade I've seen first hand the challenges people have balancing family and work life. Juggle e

Career Break

Jan 2017 - May 2017 (5 months)

Took a career break to unwind after building Conversocial over the prior six and a half years. Used the time to: * take a deep dive on some technologies that I was interested in (machine learning, React, Docker in particular) * write a book (50,000+ words) on my experiences as a startup CTO that I have since decided to pause on whilst I decide how I want to distribute it * developed my baking skills and made a lot of great cakes

CTO

Conversocial

Apr 2013 - Dec 2016 (3 years 9 months)

Conversocial is a dedicated cloud solution that helps businesses to efficiently and securely manage customer service over social business channels at a large scale. Conversocial powers social customer service for hundreds of brands worldwide including Google, Hertz, Tesco, Barclaycard, Coach, and many more. I run technology at Conversocial. This includes setting the technical roadmap, scaling the team, creating new processes, investigating new technologies and, most importantly, keeping the engineers fed and happy.

VP Engineering

Conversocial

Jul 2011 - Apr 2013 (1 year 10 months)

Senior Developer

Conversocial

Jun 2010 - Sep 2011 (1 year 4 months)

Consultant

CHP Consulting

Nov 2009 - Jun 2010 (8 months)

Technical Director and Co-Founder

Sonnet Models

Feb 2009 - Oct 2009 (9 months)

Consultant

CHP Consulting Limited

Jun 2007 - Feb 2009 (1 year 9 months)

Software Developer

Ensoft

Sep 2006 - May 2007 (9 months)

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Software Developer Internship

Data Interchange

Jul 2005 - Sep 2005 (3 months)

Designed, developed and tested new features for flagship product following requirements being gathered by marketing.

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