Chris Rice
Head of Developer Experience @Miro
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WORK HISTORY
Head of Developer Experience @Miro
London, GB
Lead Developer Experience at Miro, taking a product-led approach to improving the end-to-end engineering journey through cohesive platform capabilities, clear paved roads, and sensible defaults that reduce friction and toil, and help engineers ship and run services with confidence.Lead and scale teams across Frontend Developer Experience, Backend Developer Experience, Release Experience, and the Kubernetes-based runtime/compute platform.Treat the runtime experience as a first-class part of DevEx: standardise around Kubernetes, improve workload onboarding and day-2 operations, and accelerate migrations to the shared runtime.Partner closely with Cloud Engineering, Data Platform, and Security to ensure reliability, observability, compliance, and cost awareness are available by default through platform capabilities.Drive measurable improvements in adoption and developer productivity through customer-driven prioritisation, feedback loops, and clear product and engineering alignment.
EDUCATION
University of Liverpool
MSc, Information Technology
ABOUT CHRIS RICE
I’m an engineering leader specialising in cloud platforms, operational excellence, and developer experience: building the foundations that help product teams move faster, operate safely, and scale with confidence.I’ve spent 20+ years leading organisations from small, high-ownership teams to ~100-person globally distributed groups, delivering platform capabilities and reliability improvements that translate into real business impact. Today I’m accountable for a multi-region AWS platform running Kubernetes (EKS), including observability, incident response, and the enablement that turns platform capabilities into everyday developer leverage, while keeping security, compliance, and cost efficiency front and centre.My leadership style is clear, accountable, and people-first: I set direction, build strong leadership benches, and create cultures of high trust and continuous feedback, where teams learn quickly and execute consistently.I partner effectively with engineering, product, and senior stakeholders, translating complex technical trade-offs into simple priorities, measurable outcomes, and predictable delivery.
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