Mashooq Badar
As Co-Founder and Group CEO of Codurance, Mash Badar combines over 25 years of enterprise technology experience with a deep passion for software craftsmanship. He specialises in aligning business strategy with technology, helping clients build scalable solutions and resilient engineering teams. Pragmatic and outcome-focused, Mash is dedicated to embedding sustainable practices that ensure long-term organisational success. During his diverse career, he has succeeded in invigorating large ailing software projects as well as creating highly effective software teams and departments. His broad and deep technical knowledge, organisational skills, craft focus, and empathy to people involved have been integral to his success. He has worked in many roles for charities, investment banks, consultancies, government, media and cloud providers. He prides himself at being a hands-on software developer and believes that software development skills are very hard to learn and the best way to maintain them is to apply them.