Andy Still
CTO & Co‑Founder at Netacea; web performance and bot management expert
Manchester, United Kingdom
Summary
Web performance specialist and practitioner: Andy has built his career around improving web and application performance, authoring multiple O'Reilly reports and speaking/organising regional performance groups to integrate performance into development and operations workflows. oreilly+1
Bot management and cyber‑threat focused CTO: As co‑founder and CTO of Netacea, he leads technical strategy for a bot management product and has authored practical guidance on managing automated traffic; his work includes patents and industry commentary on automated traffic threats. netacea+3
Founder and technology leader: Co‑founder of Intechnica (2006) and later Netacea (2018), he has experience scaling consultancy and product efforts, participating in corporate transactions and spin‑outs while remaining active in technical leadership roles. co+2
Author, speaker and community contributor: He has published multiple technical reports and books, contributed articles to industry outlets, and appeared on podcasts discussing product and market challenges. paymentsjournal+2
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
Method of processing web requests directed to a website (patent)
October 1, 2024Patent describing methods for processing web requests using request vectors, clustering request vectors, monitoring cluster metadata, and identifying anomalous clusters for investigation (Netacea Limited).
Method of processing web requests to determine bot sources (patent)
August 1, 2024Patent covering methods to determine whether request sources are bots and to assign bot categories using a machine learning engine; lists Andrew Still as an inventor.
Managing and Mitigating Bots
January 1, 2018Handbook on identifying, classifying, and defining policies to handle automated (non‑human) web traffic including bots, scrapers and spiders.
Web Performance Warrior
January 1, 2015Practical guide to embedding performance into development processes and creating an organization-wide approach to web performance.