Gareth Bragg

A proven Senior Engineering Manager with 15 years of progressive leadership, with experience growing teams from 0 and scaling organisations teams from 30 to 120 engineers.

Expertise in agile delivery practices, DevOps implementation, and building high-performing engineering cultures. I combine broad technical expertise with exceptional people leadership skills, having formally coached 50+ engineers and technical leaders.

I’m experienced in managing distributed teams, managing both ICs and managers, driving CI/CD adoption, and improving engineering practices to increase deployment frequency from bi-weekly to daily.

Redgate Software Ltd

• Senior Engineering Manager (2023-2025)
• Engineering & Career Coach, Technical Lead (2018-2023)
• Quality Engineering Lead (2014-2018)

• Operated as part of a senior Development Leadership Team, growing the Engineering organization from 30 to 120 Engineers
• Directly led 2 Engineering Managers and 15 software engineers across 2 product & service teams, growing engineering headcount by 60% while maintaining 95%+ employee satisfaction scores
• Managed annual engineering budget of £2-3M, including headcount, tooling, and infrastructure costs
• Directed cloud migration initiative moving legacy applications to AWS, reducing infrastructure costs by 35% and achieving 99.9% uptime SLA
• Implemented Team Topologies organizational design principles, reducing cross-team dependencies by 40% and improving feature delivery velocity by 25%
• Established DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines, increasing deployment frequency from bi-weekly to daily, keeping Change Failure Rate low and reducing MTTR from 4 hours to 30 minutes
• Collaborated with Product Management and Design leadership to define technical roadmap
• Implemented DORA metrics tracking, achieving "High Performing" classification (or better) across all four key metrics
• Oversaw annual performance review and promotion process for 120+ engineering staff through a structure of Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, with a ~10% internal promotion rate
• Established Engineering Leadership Community of Practice serving 15+ technical leaders across the organization

BSc Computer Science, Loughbourgh University, 2006

Certificate in Professional Coaching Practice, Full Circle Coaching, 2022