Stuart Preston
Co-Founder at Chef Software
York, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStuart Preston is a seasoned platform engineering and product leader with nearly three decades of experience building enterprise-grade infrastructure, automation, and cloud-native solutions. He has led product teams at Broadcom/VMware and VMware Tanzu to deliver Kubernetes distributions and enterprise installation experiences, and as a Principal Engineer at Chef he drove deep Azure and Windows integrations that improved automation and CI/CD pipelines. Previously a CTO in EMEA, he helped create the Microsoft ecosystem "Scrum" template later adopted in Azure DevOps, demonstrating a rare mix of hands-on systems engineering and strategic product execution. Now returning to hands-on building as a co-founder of two startups, he focuses on agentic workflows that remove friction between developer velocity, security policy, and infrastructure management. Based in York, UK, he blends senior leadership with practical engineering craft and a track record of shipping solutions that scale in large organizations.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys
Github Skills (182)
test-kitchen10
hugo10
bicep10
devrel10
testing10
microsoft-azure10
chef-workstation10
terraform10
ruby10
security10
chef-client10
automation10
infrastructure10
install-script10
rake10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
stuartpreston/azure-sdk-for-ruby
Feb 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:5 PRs, 27 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 3 months
rubysdkazure-sdkmicrosoft-azureazure
stuartpreston/nuxt-auth-azuread-example
May 2020 - Aug 2022
Example Nuxt site using OAuth2 (PKCE) to demonstrate authorization code flow with Azure Active Directory (AzureAD)
Contributions:7 commits, 16 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 3 months
azure-active-directoryauthorizationpkcecode-flownuxt
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