Chris Sharp

Chris Sharp is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor in IBM, based at their UK R&D Lab in Hursley. He leads major DevOps transformation efforts across IBM, but has performed various roles throughout his career from operating very old mainframes, creating the first intranet website in IBM, developing Java 0.9 applets, designing middleware for the video games industry, architecting web services standards and building hybrid development clouds. He is a Fellow of the BCS, a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, and cares passionately about software as a craft. He is an inveterate tinkerer with an incurable curiosity and belief that anyone can build anything.