Garry Turkington

Multiple development and leadership positions over 20 years with a focus on software development, distributed computing and large-scale data systems. Multiple roles leading technical strategy, growing and leading teams and building technical platforms across adtech, retail, gaming, defence and other sectors. Actively moving between roles that provide a differing balance of technical and management responsibilities as well as maintaining significant awareness of operational support issues. Built significant application capability as well as complex distributed infrastructure systems. Deep expertise in architecture and design of systems employing a mixture of traditional infrastructure in addition to IaaS players including private and public clouds (mostly AWS and GCP). Strong commercial awareness, experienced in vendor management, technology evaluation and contract negotiation. Have built and grown in-house and outsourced teams, leading both in-house and geographically distributed development groups. Specialties: Technical leadership, building SaaS platforms, high-scale and reliability architectures, distributed computing, JVM language development, cloud computing, large-scale data processing. I do not need additional outsourced development teams- please do not contact me if you are selling such services. Thank you.