Chris Ireland
Head Of Professional Services, EMEA at Cockroach Labs, the Makers of CockroachDB
North Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Ireland is a seasoned technology leader and Head of Professional Services, EMEA, with over thirty years of hands-on experience building and integrating large-scale systems for Financial Services. He combines deep academic rigour—a PhD in Computing and Visiting Researcher role at The Open University—with practical expertise deploying cloud-native databases on Kubernetes across AWS EKS and OpenShift. Known for guiding multi-region, multi-cloud database projects (notably CockroachDB deployments) and supporting sales through technical account management, he excels at translating complex client requirements into production-ready architectures. A chartered IT professional, manager and scientist, Chris mentors distributed teams across cultures and drives customer success through professional services-led delivery. He chairs international conferences on software systems integration and has published influential work on the object-relational impedance mismatch, reflecting a rare blend of research and delivery focus. Based in North Norfolk, he quietly bridges academia, industry standards bodies and product teams to shape practical database integration strategies for regulated sectors.
5 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computing, PhD Computing at The Open UniversityMBA, MBA at The Open University Business SchoolBA (Hons) Systems Analysis, BA (Hons) Systems Analysis at University of the West of England
Github Skills (15)
arangodb10
kubernetes10
distributed-systems10
go10
postgresql10
cloud-native10
sql10
cockroachdb10
distributed-database10
mysql10
sql-database10
database10
documentation9
hybrid-cloud2
hybrid2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Jul 2020 - Apr 2024
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Contributions:1 PR, 1 branch, 22 comments in 3 years 9 months
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
cockroachdb/docs
Oct 2020 - Jan 2024
CockroachDB user documentation
Contributions:1 review, 12 comments, 8 issues in 3 years 4 months
user-documentationcockroachdbdatabasearangodb
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