Technical Lead and full-stack/front-end developer with 19+ years building and scaling commercial web and desktop products. Founded Remotify.io, a SaaS platform serving thousands of music producers worldwide, and has led product strategy, architecture, engineering delivery, releases, customer support, and go-to-market activities. Comfortable across hands-on development and leadership—architecting systems, building APIs, managing distributed teams, running CI/CD and deployments, and driving migrations and platform modernization from Drupal to WordPress and beyond.

John Carney

Technical Lead and full-stack/front-end developer with 19+ years building and scaling commercial web and desktop products. Founded Remotify.io, a SaaS platform serving thousands of music producers worldwide, and has led product strategy, architecture, engineering delivery, releases, customer support, and go-to-market activities. Comfortable across hands-on development and leadership—architecting systems, building APIs, managing distributed teams, running CI/CD and deployments, and driving migrations and platform modernization from Drupal to WordPress and beyond.

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Technical Lead and full-stack/front-end developer with 19+ years building and scaling commercial web and desktop products. Founded Remotify.io, a SaaS platform serving thousands of music producers worldwide, and has led product strategy, architecture, engineering delivery, releases, customer support, and go-to-market activities.

Comfortable across hands-on development and leadership—architecting systems, building APIs, managing distributed teams, running CI/CD and deployments, and driving migrations and platform modernization from Drupal to WordPress and beyond.

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Work Experience

Technical / Engineering Role at Think Markets
July 1, 2022 - January 1, 2023
Technical / Engineering Role at Antstream
October 1, 2019 - April 1, 2020
Developed PHP/Drupal modules for the Antstream backend; created REST APIs used by frontend services; integrated Azure storage into the content management workflow.
Developer at Dennis Publishing
January 1, 2019 - May 1, 2019
Reviewed, tested and validated development tickets to ensure quality and requirements compliance. Developed and maintained Behat BDD test suites to improve automated test coverage and reliability. Worked in a Jenkins CI/CD environment for releases and deployments. Maintained and enhanced multiple Drupal CMS websites within a large publishing portfolio.
Project Manager at We Accelerate Growth
May 1, 2018 - June 30, 2018
Project managed migration of a large e-commerce platform from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8. Coordinated a distributed development team, managed delivery priorities and timelines, acted as primary client contact, and facilitated communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Technical Lead / Full Stack Developer (Founder) at Remotify.io
January 1, 2017 - Present
Founded and led a commercial SaaS business providing software solutions for music producers worldwide. Designed and built a production Angular/Electron desktop application, architected and maintained a Drupal backend for authentication, licensing, membership and customer account services, and developed PHP systems that generate Python code from user-defined configurations. Led a distributed development team (sprint planning, code reviews, technical direction and release management), built REST APIs connecting the desktop frontend to backend services, and managed Git/CI/CD, deployments and release workflows. Led migration of the company website CMS and app backend services from Drupal to WordPress. Owned product roadmap prioritisation, and planned and executed SEO, content marketing and paid advertising across Google and Meta. Managed onboarding, documentation and customer support, and built multiple commercial products serving an international customer base.
Front-End / Web Developer (Contract/Agency work) at Various agencies and client engagements (2011–2018)
January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2018
Delivered front-end and Drupal development across multiple enterprise and high-traffic sites and platforms, including accessibility-focused development (RNIB), Agile delivery with Symfony ecosystems (Comic Relief), Drupal Commerce and checkout optimisation (ATD Travel), REST API integrations and automated content synchronisation (Omni → Chiquito), enterprise multi-site theming (Bright Lemon → NBC Universal), performance-focused content delivery (Amido → OK! Magazine), and internal and customer-facing Drupal applications (Coca-Cola, Pfizer UK, Northamptonshire Council and others).

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