Chris Derby
Angestellt, VP, Engineering, Verve Group
München, Deutschland
Werdegang
Berufserfahrung von Chris Derby
Bis heute 1 Jahr und 8 Monate, seit Nov. 2022
VP, Engineering
Verve Group
Bis heute 28 Jahre und 5 Monate, seit Feb. 1996
Founder, Managing Director, Lead Consultant
Oriontek Consulting
Strategic partner and consultant helping engineering organizations achieve cost effectiveness, availability, and scalability, with an emphasis on large-scale virtualization, cloud services, and improving engineering knowledge sharing and workflows.
Created and managed teams responsible for engineering modernization, developer productivity, security, and site reliability of Smaato's digital ad tech platform. Responsible for professional development and education of 80+ engineers and managers. Managed all technology vendor relationships, including contract negotiations with over 20 commercial partners. Worked closely with Legal, Engineering, and Product leaders to ensure platform regulatory compliance (China, COPPA, CCPA, GDPR) .
Strategic advisor to the executive team. Identified opportunities for infrastructure cost optimization and delivered a roadmap for increasing the scalability, performance, and reliability of Smaato's cloud-hosted B2B SaaS platform.
4 Monate, Apr. 2014 - Juli 2014
Consultant
Maximum Play
10 Monate, Apr. 2013 - Jan. 2014
Director, Technical Operations
NSS Labs
Established strategic vision for the Technical Operations organization. Built and managed teams responsible for datacenter planning, the overall design, deployment, and operations of both the corporate and testing lab infrastructure, as well as the IT function, including helpdesk, asset procurement and management, vendor selection and management, and telecom.
1 Jahr, Mai 2012 - Apr. 2013
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
SunGard Availability Services
7 Jahre und 7 Monate, Okt. 2004 - Apr. 2012
Manager, Systems Engineering
Univision
Managed a team of engineers responsible for maintenance, operations, and modernization Univision's global IT infrastructure supporting over 120 radio and television stations, online and mobile apps and products. Developed and executed several projects resulting in reduced expenses, faster service delivery time, and improved quality of service to end users.