Kris Saxton
Founding Partner at Automation Logic
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKris Saxton is a seasoned founder and DevOps specialist with 13 years of experience building cloud-native teams and infrastructure, currently scaling Automation Logic as a founding partner to 100 people and delivering transformation programmes across the UK public and private sectors. He blends hands-on technical authority in automation and cloud with commercial leadership, driving 40% year-on-year growth and over 60 enterprise engagements for clients such as the Home Office, HMRC and Lloyds. A committed skills-builder, he created an in-house DevOps Academy to convert STEM graduates into consulting engineers and help close the digital skills gap. Kris is also an active industry voice—regular speaker, TechUK Central Government Council committee member and Cabinet Office SME Panel participant—bringing practical experience to policy and practitioner conversations. Notably, his track record traces back to founding a datacentre automation managed services business long before DevOps became mainstream, reflecting entrepreneurial instincts grounded in operational excellence.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
London School of Economics and Political Science
French
Github Skills (27)
infrastructure-management9
python9
docker9
configuration-management9
zeromq9
scale9
iot9
remote-execution9
infrastructure9
salt8
saltstack8
automation8
package-repository8
infrastructure-as-code8
devops8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
KrisSaxton/hub
Aug 2012 - Aug 2013
Contributions:31 commits in 11 months
orchestration-enginepythonorchestrationworkflow
KrisSaxton/salt-ldap
Oct 2012 - Oct 2012
Contributions:9 commits, 2 comments in 21 days
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