# Callum Hubbarde

> VP Engineering & Data at Perlego | Technology Leader with 10+ years building Software.

Location: London Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/callumhubbarde

Technology leader with 10+ years driving software engineering excellence across EdTech and travel industries. Currently serving as the VP of Engineering & Data at Perlego where I lead a the development of a mission-lead edTech platform serving hundreds of thousands of paying subscribers globally. 

Proven track record of scaling engineering organisations from startup to growth stage with expertise spanning: 
- Building and mentoring high-performing engineering teams (40+ engineers)
- Architecting cloud-native, microservices-based solutions at scale
- Managing multi-million pound engineering budgets with strong ROI focus in VC backed firm.
- Transforming engineering cultures through agile methodologies and data driven decision making.

Passionate about problem solving through technology with specialist skills in software architecture, programme management, cloud infrastructure and innovation.

## Work Experience
### VP Engineering & Data @ Perlego
Jan 2024 – Present | London Area, United Kingdom
Leading engineering and data strategy for VC backed EdTech platform serving 1M+ titles to close to 200K subscribers. Reporting to the CEO and driving technology transformation across multiple dimensions.
 
- Managed £2.5M budget with team of 40+ engineers serving nearly 200K paying subscribers and 3M+ monthly visitors.
- Lead US retail integration programme to integrate Perlego with institutional retailer facilitating thousands of new users. 
- Creation and communication of Engineering and Data strategy leading to reduced cycle times and incidents whilst maintaining SLA compliance. 
- Lead microservices standardisation programme on common platform to reduce technical debt elevating productivity and developer experience 15% whilst reducing costs 10%.
- Hands-on creation of LLM-based solutions for Perlego AI products. 
- Lead efficiency programme reducing Engineering expenditure by 20% to improve company financial position through supplier and staffing review.

### VP Engineering at Perlego @ Perlego
Jan 2016 – Jan 2024 | London, United Kingdom
Creation of the Perlego engineering function, design and implementation of the original software whilst growing the team to scale up the business. 

- Hands-on software engineering leadership for 2-3 years building out the subscription platform applications and teams. 

- Established modern software engineering and experimentation practices setting up agile and continuous delivery practices facilitating daily deployments and A/B testing.

- Setup mixture of strategic suppliers to augment Perlego capabilities and provide project-based support establishing build vs buy criteria. 
- Facilitated fundraising efforts (Series A + B) through the engineering overview and due-diligence support. 
- Built out the engineering organisation and hired 50+ engineers across a range of technical disciplines. Championed skills development with L&D programmes and company-wide hackathons.
- Co-lead the design and implementation of the disaster recovery, backup and information security processes leading incident response and defining processes.

- Lead and coached a team of engineering managers established engineering department measures and objectives to guide managers and strategic decision making.

- Creation of the career development pathways to grow engineering skills and organisation capabilities developing strong engineering culture and maintaining low employee churn.

### Director & Software Engineer @ Tech Relays
Jan 2024 – Present | Reading
- Software Architecture and Development services for Clients in Travel and EdTech industries.
- Geographic Information Systems Development and analysis.
- Line management of Software Developers and contractors
- Hands-on software development with Typescript, React, Python, Terraform, AWS, Swift UI

### Consultant @ IBM
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | London
- Planned and managed small projects at range of FTSE100 clients. Managed project budgets, tracking financials and variance analysis.
- Planned resources, maintained forecasts and status reports using Excel modelling and VBA programming.
- Wrote work orders, contracts and change requests.
- Mapped and workshopped complex business processes in pursuit of defining system requirements.
- Completed technology graduate training.

### Summer Analyst @ Barclays Investment Bank
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | London Area, United Kingdom
- Completed business process analysis of Cash Equities Static Data management based on interviews and ethnography.
- Developing a new web interface for a tool allowing users to manage static data found in the equities trading system using Java & the Play Framework.
- Financial and Equities training covering: banking products, financial markets, trading and settlement.


## Education
### Msc in Software Engineering
University of Oxford

### Bsc in Computing and Business Studies
University of Warwick

### The Emmbrook School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/callumhubbarde

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Last updated: 2026-04-05