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Paul Gillespie

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Distinguished Engineer at Skyscanner
📍 Dunfermline, Scotland, United Kingdom

Paul Gillespie is a Distinguished Engineer at Skyscanner, leading the Production Platform group that supports over 100 million monthly travelers. With over 20 years of experience and a BSc from Heriot-Watt University, he is a recognized expert on building and scaling web-scale infrastructure.

He is a scheduled speaker at AWS re: Invent, presenting on how Skyscanners architecture scales to support 200 million users.

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Experience
28 Years
Current Role
Distinguished Engineer
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Dunfermline, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Priorities

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Cloud Architecture
He leads the team managing Skyscanner's large-scale AWS infrastructure and speaks at major tech conferences on architecting for hypergrowth on the cloud.
Distributed Systems
His work involves managing thousands of pods across multiple AWS regions, and he has a stated interest in distributed computing and microservices.
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Career

Work history

3-2023
Distinguished Engineer
Skyscanner
7-2017
Senior Principal Engineer
Skyscanner
1-2014 - 7-2017
Senior Software Architect
Skyscanner
6-2013 - 1-2014
Staff Engineer
LivingSocial
10-2011 - 6-2013
Senior Platform Architect
Oberon Media
In the press

Media appearances

The Perfect DevOps Storm – Talk by Paul Gillespie (Skyscanner). Featured in Alan Michael Reid – Conference Archive
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Change Is the Only Constant – Skyscanner Presentation. Featured in InfoQ
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Education
1993 - 1997
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
Heriot-Watt University
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