Danny Gasser

Senior Technology Leader | Engineering Platforms, SRE & Operational Resilience at Enterprise Scale

Romsey, England, United Kingdom

About

I am a senior technology leader with over 20 years experience building, scaling, and transforming engineering platforms and operational capabilities in large, regulated enterprises. Currently, I lead enterprise-wide adoption of Site Reliability Engineering at NatWest Group, alongside my role as a Distinguished Engineer, where I operate across strategy, operating models, and long-term capability building - not just technical design. My work focuses on enabling engineering organisations to deliver safely, reliably, and at pace, through platforms and practices spanning observability, SRE, operational resilience, AIOps, and developer enablement. I have led transformations that reduce toil, improve reliability, and materially increase engineering productivity. I am particularly experienced in complex environments where regulatory constraints, legacy estates, and modern engineering expectations collide - and where technology leadership must balance innovation, risk, and business outcomes.

Experience

  • NatWest Group (11 yrs)
    • Distinguished Engineer
      May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

    • SRE Lead
      Feb 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

      Leading the drive to Site Reliability Engineering within Platform Management

    • Head of Enterprise Systems Management Engineering
      Jul 2015 - Feb 2021 · 5 yrs 8 mos

      Responsible for Enterprise Systems Management strategy, architecture, and Engineering. Leading a team of engineers focussed on Splunk, APM (AppDynamics and CA), Tivoli, Netcool, TADDM, and more!

  • Developer at DannyDidIt
    Jun 2014 - Jul 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Software & Application Development

  • Enterprise Management Consultant at Royal Bank of Scotland
    Jul 2013 - Jun 2014 · 1 yr

    Currently working on installation and deployment of TADDM

  • Enterprise Management Consultant at Lloyds Banking Group
    Mar 2012 - Oct 2012 · 8 mos

    My work at Lloyds Banking Group involves: - Working with projects to define and scope new monitoring requirements - New product evaluation and solution design - Documentation and deployment of monitoring solutions

  • Enterprise Management Consultant at RBS Global Banking & Markets
    Jun 2008 - Feb 2012 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    My role in the Enterprise Engineering Team at RBS involved: - Design and deployment of custom monitoring and automation solutions. - Product Evaluation - Design and build of a web portal to manage monitoring for the estate across 12 separate monitoring environments - Scaling the data warehousing solution to manage historical data for 25,000 systems (2tb worth of data).