
Gareth Bragg
Technology / Internet
About Gareth Bragg:
A proven Senior Engineering Manager with 15 years of progressive leadership, with experience growing teams from 0 and scaling organisations teams from 30 to 120 engineers.
Expertise in agile delivery practices, DevOps implementation, and building high-performing engineering cultures. I combine broad technical expertise with exceptional people leadership skills, having formally coached 50+ engineers and technical leaders.
I’m experienced in managing distributed teams, managing both ICs and managers, driving CI/CD adoption, and improving engineering practices to increase deployment frequency from bi-weekly to daily.
Experience
Redgate Software Ltd
- Senior Engineering Manager (2023-2025)
- Engineering & Career Coach, Technical Lead (2018-2023)
- Quality Engineering Lead (2014-2018)
- Operated as part of a senior Development Leadership Team, growing the Engineering
organization from 30 to 120 Engineers - Directly led 2 Engineering Managers and 15 software engineers across 2 product & service teams, growing engineering headcount by 60% while maintaining 95%+ employee satisfaction scores
- Managed annual engineering budget of £2-3M, including headcount, tooling, and infrastructure costs
- Directed cloud migration initiative moving legacy applications to AWS, reducing infrastructure costs by 35% and achieving 99.9% uptime SLA
- Implemented Team Topologies organizational design principles, reducing cross-team dependencies by 40% and improving feature delivery velocity by 25%
- Established DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines, increasing deployment frequency from bi-weekly to daily, keeping Change Failure Rate low and reducing MTTR from 4 hours to 30 minutes
- Collaborated with Product Management and Design leadership to define technical roadmap
- Implemented DORA metrics tracking, achieving "High Performing" classification (or better) across all four key metrics
- Oversaw annual performance review and promotion process for 120+ engineering staff through a structure of Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, with a ~10% internal promotion rate
- Established Engineering Leadership Community of Practice serving 15+ technical leaders across the organization
Education
BSc Computer Science, Loughbourgh University, 2006
Certificate in Professional Coaching Practice, Full Circle Coaching, 2022
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