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Stephen M. Dick

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Member at IDC CIO Executive Council
📍 Portola Valley, California, United States

Stephen is the VP of Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering at Paylocity, leading a global team of over 150 people. He has a proven track record in scaling teams, reducing infrastructure costs by over 40%, and improving system reliability to 99. 99%. People who have worked with him describe him as a wise strategist and a supportive leader.

Beyond his executive role in tech, Stephen is the founder of Keygen Capital, a real estate investment firm with $10 million in assets under management, focusing on multi-family properties and mobile home parks. He has an active interest in Proptech, using tools like Appfolio and EliseAI.

He is the President of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the DevOps Institute, where he launched the new chapter.

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Experience
5 Years
Current Role
Member
Job Level
Senior
Location
Portola Valley, California, United States
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FinOps Practices
He is a foundation member and speaker at the FinOps Foundation, co-chairs its sustainability working group, and actively hires FinOps engineers at Paylocity.
Reliability Engineering
His expertise centers on SRE practices, having built reliability teams at Salesforce and SAP and drastically improved mean time to recovery (MTTR) at Paylocity.
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Career

Work history

10-2024
Member
IDC CIO Executive Council
6-2023
VP - Infrastructure, Cloud & Platform Engineering | DevOps | SRE | FinOps
Paylocity
6-2023
VP - Infrastructure, Cloud & Reliability Engineering | SRE | DevOps | FinOps | AIOps
Paylocity
8-2021 - 12-2024
President - Silicon Valley Chapter
DevOps Institute
2-2021 - 6-2023
Vice President - Infrastructure, Cloud & Reliability Engineering (SRE | DevOps | FinOps)
BetterCloud
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Education
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
Queen's University Belfast
Stanford Advanced AI Leadership Program
Stanford University
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