Danny Quilton

As CTO at Capacitas I have worked with our clients to deliver the following results: • At JD Sports we delivered an x2.5 increase in Black Friday revenue over the previous year. There were zero additional capacity costs • At Ancestry.com we delivered a 75% reduction in cloud spend with no negative impact on performance • We helped Skype scale from 40m-90m subscribers while reducing cloud spend by 26%. Stability improved during this same period with a 96% reduction in incidents. • At easyJet we improved the scalability of one of its mission-critical systems. At the same we improved performance by 90%, reducing cloud cost by 90%. My key achievements at Capacitas: • Designed and developed a product to enable the load testing of online stores as part of a Peak Preparation service. Employed the product to ensure successful peak trading for web sites such as London Marathon, JD Sports and Moonpig.com • Created and delivered leading performance engineering/capacity management public training courses. Over 500 attendees from international blue-chip clients • Founded a graduate and internship programme and established partnerships with major UK universities. Multiple graduates went on to become part of the leadership team at Capacitas. • Presented at numerous industry events worldwide including Butler Group, CMG, itSMF and Cloud Expo. • Published thought-leadership with City AM as well as Venture and ‘.net’ magazines • Developed a cloud optimisation diagnostic to identify $multi-million savings in annual spend