Summary
Stephen Burrows is an experienced engineering leader and Head of DevOps based in London, with two decades of building production-grade platforms and over nine years in senior DevOps and transformation roles. He has led cloud and DevOps transformation programs for financial services, advising banks, asset managers and trading firms including MSCI, NatWest Markets, Fidelity, Citi and BlackRock. Stephen combines hands-on delivery—having worked as a front-office developer and integration consultant—with strategic oversight of platform reliability, regulatory projects and risk-focused systems. He is comfortable bridging quant/finance domain needs and pragmatic engineering, enabling teams to ship auditable, resilient infrastructure at scale. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates complex regulatory and trading requirements into practical DevOps roadmaps that reduce operational friction. His background in IT/Telecommunications and an MBA give him both technical depth and commercial perspective when shaping engineering strategy.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology & Telecommunications, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology & Telecommunications at University of Limerick