Steve Purkis
Fractional CTO Advisor at Complex Adaptive
London, England, United Kingdom
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SeniorSteve Purkis is a seasoned technology leader and Fractional CTO advisor based in London with 18 years of experience helping organisations navigate change, scale operations, and redefine technology strategy. He combines hands-on delivery—ranging from building a 97% accurate deep learning cancer-detection prototype—to high-level operating model transformations for public sector, pharma, and cybersecurity clients. Steve has a track record of turning underperforming digital teams into role models, rebuilding trust and improving discoverability, cost transparency and governance across large DevOps organisations. He pairs pragmatic technical insight (Wardley mapping, SenseMaker®) with strategic advice to CDIOs, CTOs and CEOs, and has presented his work at industry forums like the Open Security Summit. Alongside consulting, he runs property investments where he applies sustainable retrofit and energy-efficiency practices, reflecting a practical, systems-oriented approach to problem solving. Practical, communicative and eclectic, he blends deep technical roots with organisational design to deliver measurable operational and financial improvements.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (17)
perl8
formatter7
html6
risk-assessment6
drawable6
android6
threat-modeling5
security5
foundation5
collaboration4
testing3
open-source3
statistics3
cybersecurity3
application-security3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Wardley-Mapping-Foundation/wmf-operating-model
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
The Wardley Mapping Foundation
Contributions:14 reviews, 28 commits, 9 PRs in 8 months
wardleymapswardley-mappingfoundationmappingwardley-maps
spurkis/TAP-Formatter-HTML
May 2008 - Dec 2017
Perl TAP::Formatter::HTML module
Contributions:65 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 9 years 9 months
formatterperl
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