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Lloyd Moore
| CTO / VP Engineering | Technology & Product Strategy |
Engineering executive who scales teams, platforms and revenue. Grew engineering headcount 10 → 187, underpinned a $3.25 bn valuation, and cut cloud spend 70% while driving 99.98% uptime.
Career Highlights
- Hyper‑growth – Built Blockdaemon’s engineering org from 10 to 187 across 14 countries; MTTR down 75%.
- Platform scale – Operated blockchain nodes on six continents handling 200 M+ daily calls at 99.9% availability.
- Velocity & efficiency – Migrated to Kubernetes & Kafka; deploy time 4.5 h → 2 min, throughput ×8, cloud bill –65%.
- People & culture – Mentoring scheme promoted 40% of engineers in 18 months; attrition 4%.
Core Strengths
Product & Tech Strategy • Large‑Scale Team Leadership • Multi‑Cloud & Edge Infrastructure • Security & Compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR) • DevOps & SRE • Data Engineering & Analytics • Budget & P&L Ownership • M&A Technical Due Diligence
Experience
- Advised founders on scale‑up architecture and hiring, accelerating product launches by up to 12 months.
- Conducted code & design reviews that de‑risked funding pitches.
- Authored a strategic roadmap that secured $2.5 m seed funding for a fintech startup.
- Set product, data and tech strategy for new‑market entry; led Engineering, IT, Infra & Data.
- Built privacy‑first federated‑learning platform, cutting partner onboarding time 50%.
- Re‑architected Alicenet v2 blockchain (Go/Kubernetes), 4× throughput, –30% node cost.
- Achieved ISO 27001 readiness & SOC 2 Type I in four months; trimmed cloud waste 20%.
- Scaled engineering 10 → 180 across 14 countries; added SRE, QA, Security, Data, Architecture.
- Led Series A–C technical due diligence contributing to $3.25 bn valuation.
- Migrated to Kubernetes & Kafka: throughput ×8, cloud bill –65%, deploy time 4.5 h → 2 min.
- Deployed AWS, Azure, GCP & bare‑metal clusters with 99.98% uptime.
- Senior SRE, DWP Digital – Cut deployment time 40% by introducing DevOps guardrails.
- Senior Solutions Architect, Atom Bank – Designed AML/Sanctions platform; buy‑vs‑build strategy saved £4.5 m.
- Interim Head of Software Delivery, Insure The Box – CI/CD rebuild: deploys 4.5 h → 2 min.
- Interim CTO, CollectorIQ — Reset roadmap, won first enterprise client (Bank of America).
- Senior Architect, CCP Games — Built backend for VR title EVE: Valkyrie handling global load.
- Lead Architect, Lookbooks — Redesigned API/services, uptime ↑ to “three nines”.
- Head of Engineering, High‑Traffic Video Platform — 1 Bn+ monthly requests, 99.99% uptime.
- Solutions Architect, Ad Salsa — Hybrid‑cloud migration cut infra costs 94%.
Military Leadership
Crisis leadership, team cohesion and strategic planning under pressure inform my approach to scaling technology organisations.
Education & Certifications
HNC, Mathematics, Electronics & Computer Science** — School of Electrical & Aeronautical Engineering
Speaking & Podcasts
- Data Enablement —Blockchain Recorded 2024
- Leadership Stores — Level-up Engineering Podcast 2023
- Leadership Insights and the future of Decentralized Data Networks - Crypto Hipster Podcast 2023
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