Gary Gale

Current

Director of Engineering, Yahoo! Geo Technologies at Yahoo!

Past

Head of UK Engineering, Yahoo! Geo Technologies at Yahoo!
Snr. Engineering Manager, Y! Geo at Yahoo!
Geo Location Targeting Engineering Manager at Yahoo!

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Education

Sackville School

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Gary Gale’s Summary

Currently Director of Engineering for the Yahoo! Geo Technologies group, managing a UK and US engineering group and overseeing the 8 product lines that contributes to significantly to the company’s bottom line. Leadership, technological and product ability derived from 20+ years commercial experience in a wide range of C++, commercial and open source UNIX environments and formally qualified as Red Hat Certified Engineer. Experienced in developing software and managing engineering teams for the BBC World Service, Reuters, Yahoo! and factiva.com.

Hands on technology, leadership and outreach roles with a wide range of industry sector experience combining strong leadership, mentoring and communication skills. Focusing on software engineering processes and establishing best practices tailored to team, industry and corporate needs.

Specialised in growing teams of high calibre engineers across all aspects of the engineering process, including geographically disparate team structures, to rapidly provide, implement and deliver innovative, scaleable and market defining solutions. Actively participating in outreach by presenting papers and representing the company at professional and trade shows.

Gary Gale’s Specialties:

Product strategy and planning, geolocation and geoidentification technologies, networking, system architecture, internationalisation, tailored Scrum and Agile methodologies, C++ and UNIX engineering, engineering processes, technology mentoring, broad range of industry sector experience.