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Gareth Bragg

Gareth Bragg

Senior Engineering Manager | Coach

Technology / Internet

Northstowe, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire

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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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