Chris Stos-Gale

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ABOUT CHRIS STOS-GALE

I am an experienced Technology Business leader with a strong technical IT Infrastructure, Platforms, Security and Cloud background.I have extensive experience building and developing large technical teams and defining and executing on the strategy for my area, as well as managing both internal and external stakeholders on both sides of being a customer/supplier In my current role I lead the team that looks after Epic Games\' Cloud Infrastructure, one of the largest public cloud deployments in the world. This includes technologies like Kubernetes, authentication / authorisation, networking, and infrastructure automation that is focussed on allowing our developers to work more productively and minimise the amount of time they spend building infrastructure.In my previous role ay Sky Bet I lead a team of 60 engineers and project managers who operated and developed the infrastructure the Sky Bet products operate on. This included public cloud technologies (AWS and GCP) as well as on-premise DataCentres. This also included technologies like Kubernetes, Kafka, Jenkins, Github, Vault and more. My role included defining our infrastructure strategy / vision and managing a budget of more than £10m in OPEX and £4m in CAPEX a year. I have a keen focus on efficiency and delivering value to the business and have driven a number of cost saving initiatives over the past 3 years saving the business more than £1m of annual OPEX.I was also part of the SBG Tech Leadership team, comprising of the leaders of the other tribes in SBG, and work as a team to manage SBG Technology at a wider level. This has given me invaluable leadership experience, and I have worked on a number of cross-technology initiatives.I am also passionate about developing people, and love to see people progress and develop new skills. I’m also a key advocate for improving diversity, equality, and inclusion in technology, and am very keen to create an environment where people can be comfortable being themselves and are treated respectfully by others. Holding an active CCIE certification I acquired over 10 years ago, I also have strong technical skills, covering a wide area of infrastructure technology such as networking, hosting, and cloud technologies. This extends from complex architecture and design through to delivery and service, and includes experience with cloud technologies such as AWS and GCP, on-premise DC infrastructure, Workplace services like Office 365 and Azure, and platform components such as Kubernetes, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Kafka, Jenkins, the Atlassian suite and more.