Engineering leadership
Team building and hiring, coaching and mentorship, performance management, career pathways, engineering culture, cross-functional leadership.
Curriculum vitae 2026
Ciaran
Kelly
Engineering Manager
Skilled Engineering Manager with over a decade of experience scaling high-performing software and platform teams. I bridge technical execution with product strategy, build high-trust engineering cultures, and modernise cloud platforms for reliable, valuable delivery.
01 / Capability
Core skills
Delivery and strategy
Roadmap and backlog ownership, Agile and Scrum governance, incident management, SRE practices, technical product ownership, stakeholder management.
Cloud and platform architecture
Microsoft Azure, hybrid cloud and virtualisation, cloud governance and security, infrastructure modernisation.
DevOps and automation strategy
CI/CD maturity, infrastructure as code with Terraform, release management, developer velocity and tooling.
02 / Career
Experience
Sep 2025 — Sep 2026
Azure DevOps Engineer
Version1 · Consulting
- Designed scalable, automated CI/CD pipelines, streamlining software delivery and deployment velocity.
- Architected and managed resilient Azure infrastructure across Compute, Networking, Storage and PaaS with Terraform.
- Executed enterprise cloud migrations while enforcing governance, cost efficiency, security and compliance standards.
- Established repeatable, auditable infrastructure deployment patterns and automated governance frameworks.
Jan 2023 — Aug 2025
Engineering Manager
Netigate · SaaS
- Led and mentored cross-functional SRE and Data Engineering teams, managing performance, retention and career progression.
- Drove Agile/Scrum adoption, incident retrospectives and operational reliability standards across the department.
- Owned roadmap strategy, backlog grooming and resource allocation, aligning technical delivery with product objectives.
- Built a blameless culture of high trust, continuous learning and accountability.
- Embedded self-service CI/CD pipelines and modular Terraform infrastructure frameworks.
Sep 2018 — Jan 2023
Development Manager
Paradox Interactive · Gaming
- Led and mentored a multidisciplinary engineering team of 8–10 developers, supporting performance and career development.
- Served as Technical Product Owner, defining vision, strategy and roadmap priorities for a developer platform.
- Optimised team structure, planning processes and engineering workflows for predictable release cadence.
- Aligned Engineering, delivery teams and Product stakeholders in a collaborative, player-first environment.
Sep 2016 — Sep 2018
DevOps Team Lead
Qliro · Fintech
- Architected and managed automated release pipelines, eliminating manual deployment touchpoints and establishing deterministic artifact versioning.
- Enforced declarative infrastructure and state configuration with PowerShell and PowerShell DSC.
- Engineered and scaled hybrid virtualisation clusters using VMware ESXi/vCenter and Windows Server Hyper-V.
- Mentored junior engineers and authored documentation and runbooks to accelerate onboarding.
May 2012 — Aug 2016
Build Engineer
DICE · Gaming
- Orchestrated build, packaging and release pipelines across multiple multi-platform titles.
- Engineered distributed CI/CD infrastructure with Jenkins and Perforce, automating asset processing and continuous delivery.
- Developed fault-tolerant PowerShell and Bash automation for artifact staging, dependency resolution and deployment.
- Administered and scaled virtualised infrastructure, provisioning high-throughput build nodes.
03 / Credentials
Certifications
- GitHub Certified: GitHub Copilot GH-300
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104
- Microsoft Specialist: Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V
- Professional Scrum Master I PSM I
- Professional Product Owner I PSPO I
04 / Background
Details
- Education
- HND — Business Information Technology
University of Huddersfield - Languages
- English — Native speaker
Swedish — B1 - Contact
- linkedin.com/in/ciaranstockholm