Summary
Chris Neale is a Microsoft Practice Chief Architect with over 20 years of hands-on infrastructure and cloud experience, and a decade focused on DevOps and Azure for large enterprise and public-sector customers. He has delivered evergreen managed services to 100+ customers, designed PKI and GPO-driven device estates, and troubleshooted large VMware estates for the UK NHS—demonstrating deep operational experience across public, private and hybrid clouds. A decisive technical leader and mentor, he builds delivery-focused teams and drives repeatable, automated solutions using Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, Bicep/ARM and PowerShell. Chris pairs systems-level architecture with practical service operations know-how (ITIL/ServiceNow), often reducing manual toil through automation and standardisation. He’s actively expanding into modern testing and scripting with JavaScript, Python and Playwright, bringing a continual learning mindset to large-scale, secure infrastructure projects.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Aston University
French