Rich Carne is a strategic technology executive with 8+ years in senior leadership, currently serving as VP of Infrastructure & Technology Operations in Prague where he drives cloud-native, GitOps deployments and operational security across multi-cloud environments. He has a proven track record turning business goals into technology roadmaps—leading cloud migrations with AWS, re-architecting systems into microservices, and launching PaaS/SaaS offerings for meteorological data and APIs. Previously as Chief Digital Officer and Head of Software Engineering, he fused product, UX and Agile delivery to create scalable customer-facing services and reduce time-to-market. Rich excels at building and unifying distributed engineering teams—software, DevOps, test and infra—across cultures and suppliers to standardize operations and improve reliability. He blends hands-on platform experience (Kubernetes, Flux, CI/CD) with stakeholder-level influence, including government and large enterprise partnerships. A pragmatic technologist with a business-first mindset, he often translates complex operational constraints into commercial services and measurable outcomes.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at The Open University
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Rich Carne - VP Of Infrastructure & Technology Operations