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Current
Splunk
Leading the Splunk Cloud Platform, a Kubernetes-based PaaS for services running at global scale across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
About me
Software engineering leader focused on building high-performing teams that deliver at scale. Deep technical expertise, a commitment to continuous improvement, and an empathetic, collaborative nature underpin a leadership approach centered on clarity and accountability. At Splunk, my work spans AI transformation, engineering productivity, and a Kubernetes-based platform supporting a global footprint of services.
Capabilities
Engineering leadership, product delivery, technical systems, and academic depth.
Engineering Leadership
- Building high-performing teams
- Empowering product development organizations
- Creating clarity and accountability
- Coaching, facilitation, and agile leadership
Delivery at Scale
- Roadmap planning and execution
- Portfolio planning
- Software delivery metrics
- Product management partnership
Technical Systems
- Large-scale SaaS platforms
- Systems architecture at scale
- Distributed systems
- Continuous improvement and reliability practices
Academic Foundation
- PhD in Computer Science
- Programming languages
- Artificial intelligence
- Pervasive computing and sensor systems
Career & Education
A brief timeline of leadership roles, product work, and academic foundation.
2018-2020
Unsupervised
VP Engineering, pushing the boundaries of AI by using unsupervised learning to discover business-transforming patterns in data.
2016-2018
Apto
VP of Engineering, leading the architectural transformation from a bespoke Salesforce application to a service-oriented platform for high-velocity startup experimentation.
2010-2016
Rally Software / CA Technologies
Engineering director, building industry-transforming agile software and leading through Rally's growth, successful IPO, and acquisition by CA Technologies.
2003-2008
University Research & Teaching
Lecturer, research fellow, and post-doctoral fellow in distributed systems, emerging Web technologies, programming languages, databases, and pervasive computing.
1994-2003
Computer Science Education
PhD at University of Strathclyde, BSc (Hons) at University of Glasgow, and an exchange year at UC Berkeley.
Selected Writing
Short archived notes on leadership, communication, metrics, and management craft.
Manager Readme
A working note on expectations, communication, meetings, 1:1s, and how I try to show up as a leader.
One on One Meetings
A concise list of principles for useful, human, actionable 1:1s.
Business Metrics for Humans
A plain-language glossary for engineering leaders learning SaaS and business metrics.
Reading List for Technical Leaders
Books and references that shaped my thinking about software leadership.
Publications
Academic posters, conference material, invited talks, and podcast appearances.
Research Papers
- Steve Neely, Graeme Stevenson and Paddy Nixon "Assessing the Suitability of Context Information for Ambient Display." Ambient Information Systems 2007, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 254, 2007.
- Steve Neely, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon "Adaptive Middleware for Autonomic Systems." Annales des Telecommunications, 61(9-10), 2006.
- Simon Dobson, Paddy Nixon, Lorcan Coyle, Steve Neely, Graeme Stevenson and Graham Williamson "Construct: An Open Source Pervasive Systems Platform." 4th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2007.
- Lorcan Coyle, Steve Neely, Gaetan Rey, Graeme Stevenson, Mark Sullivan, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon "Sensor Fusion-Based Middleware for Assisted Living." Smart Homes and Beyond, ICOST 2006.
- Lorcan Coyle, Steve Neely, Graeme Stevenson, Mark Sullivan, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon "Sensor Fusion-Based Middleware for Smart Homes." International Journal of Assistive Robotics and Mechatronics, 2007.
- Lorcan Coyle, Steve Neely, Paddy Nixon and Aaron Quigley "Sensor Aggregation and Integration in Healthcare Location Based Services." PervasiveHealth, 2006.
- Simon Dobson, Steve Neely, Graeme Stevenson, Lorcan Coyle and Paddy Nixon "Towards a Platform for Widespread Embedded Intelligence." ERCIM News, 2006.
- Juan Ye, Susan McKeever, Lorcan Coyle, Steve Neely and Simon Dobson "Resolving Uncertainty in Context Integration and Abstraction." 5th International Conference on Pervasive Services, 2008.
- Richard Connor, David Lievens, Fabio Simeoni, Steve Neely and George Russell "Projector: A Partially Typed Language for Querying XML." PlanX Workshop on Programming Language Technologies for XML, 2002.
- Steve Neely "Mobile Computations Over Distributed Semistructured Data." PhD thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2003.
Posters & Miscellany
- Steve Neely, Matthew Stabeler and Paddy Nixon "SensorMash: Exploring System Fidelity through Sensor Mashup." Poster at 6th International Conference Pervasive Computing, Sydney, Australia, May 2008.
- Steve Neely, Graham Williamson, Hui Zhang, Graeme Stevenson and Simon Dobson "Location Detection with Smart Zigbee Sensors." Poster at The 2nd Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks Research in Ireland (WiSen 2007), Ireland, June 2007.
- Graeme Stevenson, Lorcan Coyle, Steve Neely, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon "Construct -- A Decentralised Context Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing Environments." IT&T Annual Conference, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland, 2005.
Invited Talks and Presentations
- Steve Neely and Steve Stolt "Continuous Delivery? Easy! Just change everything. (Well, maybe it isn't that easy)" at Agile 2013, Nashville, TN, August 2013.
- Steve Neely and Steve Stolt "Continuous Delivery? It's Easy! Just change all your engineering practices" at RallyON 2013, Boulder, CO, May 2013.
- Ryan Martens and Steve Neely "Developing Quality in 1 Week or Less," the BMC DevOps Leadership Podcast, December 2012.
- Steve Neely "Culture of Quality: Move Fast and Break Things" at Boulder Resilience Engineering the Web (BREW).
- Steve Neely and Ryan Scott "Culture of Quality - Behavior & Test Driven Development" at RallyON 2012, Boulder, CO, May 2012.
Research Archive
Earlier research interests and academic community work.
Conference and Workshop Organisation
- Chair, Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing (MPAC 07) at Middleware 2007.
- Chair, Ubiquitous Systems Evaluation (USE '07) at UbiComp 2007.
- Publications Chair, PERVASIVE 2007.
- Student Volunteer Co-chair, PERVASIVE 2006.
- Sponsorship Chair, ECOOP 2005.
- Treasury Chair, Mobile HCI 2004.
Program Committee Membership
- Workshop on Ambient Information Systems at Pervasive 2007 and UbiComp 2008.
- Workshop on Trust in Mobile Environments at IFIPTM 08 - Joint iTrust and PST Conference.
- Workshop on Pervasive Technologies for Support of Alzheimer's and Related Disease Sufferers, PERA 2008.
- Workshop on the Issues of Designing and Evaluating Ambient Information Systems 2007 at PERVASIVE 07.
- Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing (MPAC) 2006 at Middleware 2006.
Professional Affiliations
- Certified SCRUM Master.
- Chartered IT Professional Member of the British Computer Society.
- Member of the IEEE.