13 years experience leading Software development functions in tech giants and medium enterprisesSkilled at forming cohesive & highly effective management functions from my management teamsManaging change and successfully adapting to scaleRecruiting, developing and mentoring technical staff, most especially technical managersPromoting a culture of ownership, autonomy and pride in the work of the departmentAchieving high staff satisfaction rates and low staff attritionCurrent Responsibility:Heading up the Engineering department of a tech-focused, multinational, B2B2C online gambling company. PaaS, Saas, White Label. Responsible for a total of approximately 100 Engineering Managers, Technical Leads, Principal Developers, Senior Developers, Developers, Data Engineers, Cloud Engineers and Database Developers working in 20 cross functional Scrum teams. Product verticals of responsibility include Payments, Marketing (including third party CRM integrations), Registration & Player Account Management, Compliance, Gaming, Sports Integrations, Data Pipelines & Reporting (PostgresSQL), Back Office Account & Site Management Software, bespoke Internal Business Applications, Content Management Systems, Native Apps (iOS & Android), Front End (PHP, Angular & vue.js), Platform (Scala). Previous Responsibilities:Management of Agile squads of Software and Quality Engineers in the Bockchain space, developing sophisticated software systems in a B2B2C environment. Squads are comprised of full stack Software Engineers, Product Owners and Quality Engineers working to Scrum. Tech stack is OpenJDK 11/17, RabbitMQ, K8s, Angular, Cassandra, PostgresSQL. Asynchronous microservice architecture operating on a 24/7/365 basis with an emphasis on performance, stability and uptime.Responsibility for 70 mixed disciplinary technical staff and managers across four functions and 12 teams. These functions were:* Regulatory: high performance, high velocity database intensive event driven software systems integrated with 3rd party APIs operated by international government regulators* App Development: in-house scratch built back office web application software used by hundreds of staff to manage much of tech giant's operation* Support: 1st to 3rd line ITIL support teams servicing internal and external customers covering bulk of the departmental estate* MI: sophisticated MI & reporting from multi-100TB databases providing group P&L, banking reconciliations, product performance, exception reporting etc. across all functions and levels of the business