Lester Wade
Vice President Of Customer Success & Solutions Architecture at Anchore
Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLester Wade is a seasoned technology executive with 14 years of experience building and leading distributed, client-facing cloud and automation teams across AWS and Google Cloud. Currently VP of Customer Success & Solutions Architecture at Anchore, he combines hands-on technical depth with commercial acumen to accelerate customer time-to-value and simplify complex technical landscapes. Previously he scaled global pre-sales and specialist engineering organisations at Google and AWS, incubating cloud Centres of Excellence and managed services capabilities. He began his career in Linux and HPC, contributing to the Eucalyptus open-source cloud platform to improve stability and storage error handling—an early sign of his focus on operational robustness. Known as an adaptive, collaborative leader, Lester leads by example as a trusted advisor who prioritises openness and measurable business outcomes. Based in the Greater Bristol Area, he thrives at the intersection of disruptive cloud platforms and pragmatic customer success.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Chemistry, Maths & Computing, Physics, Chemistry, Maths & Computing at Peter Symonds College - Winchester1st Class with Honours, Computer Network Management & Design, 1st Class with Honours, Computer Network Management & Design at University of Portsmouth
Github Skills (7)
c1710
c1110
cloud-computing10
error-handling9
system-administration9
logging8
xslt8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
eucalyptus/eucalyptus
Feb 2013 - Feb 2014
Eucalyptus Cloud-computing Platform
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Lester primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Eucalyptus Cloud-computing Platform. Their work included addressing issues related to memory overcommitment and correcting the MAX_MEM configuration. They also made minor code changes to improve the handling of errors, specifically within the storage subsystem, improving logging messages. Overall, the commits suggest a focus on improving system stability and addressing specific operational challenges within the platform.
cloudkubernetescloud-computingcomputing
eucalyptus/ansible-playbooks
Mar 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:85 commits in 1 year
deployingplaybooksansible
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