
Senior Director & Head of Engineering for Apama Products at Progress Software
United Kingdom

Senior Director & Head of Engineering for Apama Products at Progress Software
United Kingdom
1 more...
Technologist and people manager. After being awarded a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University in 2000 I spent a period doing post doctoral research before joining a software startup in 2001. I moved into engineering management shortly afterwards, and have led the R&D of the Apama suite of products for the last few years. Apama is a successful CEP product; deployed within and in production at a majority of the leading financial institutions globally.
Engineering Leadership and Execution, management of full software development lifecycle, team management, recruitment, operational execution, public speaking, press spokesperson, financial markets, with a strong technical background in distributed software systems, CEP/BAM/ESP engines and solutions, and real-time systems.
(Public Company; PRGS; Computer Software industry)
May 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)
I lead the R&D and delivery of the Apama suite of software products. Apama is the leading platform for Complex Event Processing (CEP).
I manage Engineering and QA teams based in Cambridge UK, and Nashua, USA, and direct other corporate teams who deliver documentation, platform porting, installers, and build and test infrastructure.
In this role I also work closely with Apama's customer facing organisations; Product Management, Sales, Pre-Sales, Professional Services, Technical Support, Legal, Customer Services, Marketing and PR.