liam.pro

LIAM READ

TECHNICAL LEAD

Profile

Technical lead and senior software developer with 10+ years of experience turning ambitious product ideas into reliable commercial software.

I combine hands-on full-stack engineering with architectural judgement, delivery leadership, and developer mentoring, with a strong focus on AI-enabled products, automation, and intelligent workflows that solve real business problems.

Most effective in fast-moving SaaS and SME environments where product strategy, engineering quality, complex integrations, and commercial outcomes need to align.

10+ years commercial software

AI-enabled SaaS products

Architecture through launch

Engineering leadership

Experience

Founding Engineer

Jan 2025 - Present

Automwrite

Played a key hands-on role in shaping, building, and launching the SaaS product from technical foundations through to production.

Planned, designed, and implemented features across the core API, SaaS web platform, marketing website, mobile app, integrations API, and Growth Engine tooling for scraping, automation, and outreach.

Established core platform architecture including payments, multi-tenancy, database design, authentication, organisation management, roles and permissions, AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, automated deployments, and release pipelines.

Contributed beyond engineering through product design, Figma work, app store imagery, release assets, go-to-market activity, sales calls, and customer acquisition.

Technical Architect

Mar 2024 - Jan 2025

iOWNA wHealth

Led cloud infrastructure, cloud-native application development, GraphQL API design, database administration, and technical architecture.

Managed a small engineering team to overhaul and rebuild the platform, delivering a fully revamped product under a compressed deadline.

Partnered with stakeholders to translate product and operational requirements into scalable technical solutions, while supporting enterprise sales efforts with major vendors such as Organon and MD.

Technical Lead

Jul 2020 - Jul 2022

Bitvavo

Led a team of 12 frontend engineers across high-impact web and mobile projects.

Managed delivery of a large-scale React Native mobile application from concept through deployment, supporting 400K+ active users.

Architected and led two major web platform projects using React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and DevOps practices.

Owned key technical design decisions, coordinated delivery across teams, and helped Bitvavo scale from a 6-engineer startup to a company of 200+ employees through hiring, onboarding, and mentoring.

Skills

Product Engineering

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • React Native
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Go

Platform

  • PostgreSQL
  • GraphQL
  • Serverless
  • Realtime systems
  • Linux
  • Docker
  • AWS

AI & Automation

  • OpenAI APIs
  • LLM agents
  • Intelligent workflows
  • Scraping
  • Growth Engine tooling

Leadership

  • Technical architecture
  • Delivery leadership
  • Developer mentoring
  • CI/CD
  • Commercial delivery

Education

Honours Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

University of Plymouth

Government Apprenticeship

NVQ Level III Technology Specialist

Contact

Arnhem

EU Citizen