Ed Conolly is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building scalable, secure systems and currently serves as VP of Engineering at Cloudflare in London. He has led technology organizations through rapid growth as CTO and Group CTO roles at Kaluza and OVO, driving adoption of reactive microservices, streaming analytics, and continuous delivery at scale. Comfortable across stacks—from Scala-based backend services and Kafka/Spark pipelines to front-end and mobile experiences—he combines hands-on technical judgment with strategic product-facing leadership. His background as a founder and early technical lead gives him a pragmatic, delivery-oriented mindset and a track record of turning complex operational problems into reliable, customer-focused platforms. Notably, his career blends deep technical breadth with repeated responsibility for engineering culture and end-to-end delivery in high-impact consumer and infrastructure businesses.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Msci, Mathematical Physics, Msci, Mathematical Physics at University of Nottingham
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