~Steve Thompson

stetho.me/cv  ·  steve@stetho.me

IT operations leader & infrastructure architect.
Foundational hire at Google DeepMind (#23) and Shazam (#31).
35 years building things that work at scale.

experience
IT Operations Manager 2013 – 2026 Google DeepMind
IT Operations Lead 2008 – 2013 Shazam
Provisioning Engineering 2003 – 2008 Research In Motion (BlackBerry)
Automation Developer 2002 – 2003 Electronic Solutions
Technical Support Engineer 1988 – 1996 Apple Computer UK
skills
DevOps Infrastructure as Code Puppet JAMF Google Workspace GPU / HPC Python CI/CD IAM AI Governance MDM Zero Trust AWS LLM Integration
education

BA Criminology & Sociology (Open University)  ·  Diploma Computing & IT (Open University) ·  City & Guilds Diploma in Teaching  ·