Summary
Steve Shead is a seasoned technology and security executive with 20+ years of experience who currently serves as CTO at San Francisco Federal Credit Union, specializing in secure digital transformation, cloud adoption, and AI-aware strategy. He has held CIO/CTO/CSO roles across fintech, healthcare, and SaaS, repeatedly cutting costs, halving technical debt, and delivering zero-downtime modernization at enterprise scale. Steve is known for building high-performing, change-ready teams and translating complex technical risk into board-level trust through clear roadmaps and governance. He combines historical perspective—having navigated multiple waves from early digital to cloud and AI—with active public thought leadership on AI in healthcare and secure transformation. Equally comfortable as a fractional CIO or full-time executive, he focuses on growing people as much as systems, mentoring emerging leaders while driving measurable business outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
City in Guilds 1 & 2 Aeronautical Engineering, City in Guilds 1 & 2 Aeronautical Engineering at Royal Air Force Halton School of Trade Training