CTO
If you think the past five years you spent rebuilding your entire IT stack means you can now relax, think again, says former divisional CTO at Worldpay and IT veteran David Walker.
A world-leading provider of investment data, analytics and research is on a mission to migrate to the cloud by 2025 – and it’s finding benefits beyond its core business case.
"We have a federated Enterprise Architecture approach; making sure that we don’t get constantly caught in these endless loops of centralisation and decentralisation..."
A big ERP overhaul, sustaining app-led revenue growth and a focus on supply chain optimisation are priorities at Nike...
"We're taking on one piece of the network step-by-step. eBPF is making a lot of things possible and with cloud native, all aspects of the network and of connectivity have an opportunity to be redone better."
Rapidly growing company had struggled to find the perfect CTO fit after co-founder Eliot Horowitz's departure.
"It's given us a renewed understanding of how our infrastructure and our applications work, and how everything communicates together...”
His "knowledge of software security appears to exceed that of most governments"
"During Covid I saw two kids, sitting almost on the footpath outside Starbucks in Dallas, and they were doing their homework on its Wi-Fi. It broke my heart. Not creating a digital divide is super important..."