Duncan Stuart

Background

About Duncan Stuart

Hi, I'm Duncan, and I can talk to both people and computers (but not recruiters)(Seriously I'm not interested in talking to recruiters: neither as a candidate, nor as a representative of any company I work for. Please respect that) Ruby developer, User analyst. But I can and have turned my hand to many tasks - from hiring to requirements capture, from writing bids to security reviewing websites, from designing the architecture of complex systems to leading the software development of them. I value small teams, short iterations and lots of client and user feedback. Clients who understand that web sites and services are for their users and not for them are good clients. I love the expressiveness of Ruby, and I don't think I could work somewhere that doesn't use git. Leaving Oxford University with a Maths and Computer Science degree, I spent a number of years in purgatory (IT consultancy). I was exposed to lots of large public sector IT delivery projects, and adapted to whatever role was needed to get the job done. I spent time as a developer, analyst, requirements gatherer, acceptance tester and more. I joined dxw when it was 3 people and helped it grow to a company of more than 30, with a significant influence on the digital UK public sector. Now I'm in Sweden as a partner at Varvet, helping to developing services for our clients.