John Pillar
Head Of Architecture And Engineering (Lending Technology) at NatWest Group
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Pillar is a distinguished engineer and technology executive based in London with nine years in senior leadership roles driving payments, innovation and venture technology at NatWest Group. He has a track record of transforming retail and commerce platforms—from ASOS and M&S to Arcadia and Discover&Deliver—building scalable engineering organisations and pioneering customer-facing digital experiences. At NatWest he advises on high-impact technical decisions and has served as CTO for Payments and for Ventures, Innovation & Partnerships, shaping products that touch millions of consumers and businesses. Equally hands-on, he enjoys tinkering with IoT and treating his house as code, bringing maker-level curiosity to enterprise architecture. Known for blending entrepreneurial drive with pragmatic delivery, he repeatedly converts experimental ideas into production-grade platforms that improve the bottom line.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSC Hons, Information Science, BSC Hons, Information Science at Teesside University
English
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Github Skills (28)
docker-desktop9
bluetooth-low-energy9
interaction8
camera8
nodejs7
philips-hue7
hue6
windows-phone6
winrt5
windows4
uwp4
bluetooth4
finder4
hci3
microservices3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JOHNEPPILLAR/Alfred_Scheduler_Service
Sep 2017 - Oct 2019
Home light scheduler and sensor service for Alfred
Contributions:4 PRs, 228 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 1 month
lightalfredschedulerhome-automationhome-assistant
JOHNEPPILLAR/Alfred_Helper
Sep 2019 - Apr 2021
Helper and shared functions lib
Contributions:4 PRs, 107 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 6 months
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