Stuart Preston
Co-Founder at BIMP
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 (139)
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microsoft-azure10
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terraform10
security10
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chef-client10
automation10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
polverio/releases
Oct 2022 - Sep 2025
This repository contains production runtime scripts utilized by Kubelift Solo on Azure - see https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/polverio.kubelift?tab=Overview
Contributions:1 PR, 61 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
azurekubernetesmarketplace
stuartpreston/azure-sdk-for-ruby
Feb 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:5 PRs, 27 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 3 months
rubysdkazure-sdkmicrosoft-azureazure
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