Paul Stephens

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Engineering leader passionate about building winning teams that solve complex technical problems with innovative solutions, while providing high value to customers. Track record of implementing Agile and other best engineering practices with a flexible architecture to enable rapid delivery of products for both start-ups and larger engineering organizations. My extensive experience has enabled me to build highly efficient and successful engineering teams, ranging from small start-up environments to global engineering teams built from the ground up, with over 300 engineers across multiple locations. I value transparency, honesty and an environment of feedback and coaching. I am a highly collaborative person who values different opinions and experiences, and teams that challenge the status quo. I am not afraid of taking risks and relentlessly trying to improve myself and others to increase success.

Experience

  • Chief Technology Officer at Netwrix Corporation
    May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

  • VP Engineering at Splunk
    Jun 2019 - Feb 2025 · 5 yrs 9 mos

  • VP Engineering at ServiceNow
    Jan 2018 - May 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Led the engineering team for ServiceNow's IT Operations Management (ITOM) business unit.

  • VP Engineering at Veritas Technologies LLC
    Oct 2015 - Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Led a 260 person engineering Appliance Solutions team delivering virtual (software) and physical appliance products. Includes responsibility for a SaaS telemetry system hosted in AWS that gathers analytical information about all deployed appliances. Fastest growing organic business within Veritas Achievements ------------------- • Transformed the architecture from a monolithic application to a microservice architecture with well-defined RESTful API’s, leveraging containerization (Docker) that could be leveraged by all products in the portfolio for faster delivery and easier maintainability • Moved the SaaS system from in-house hosting to AWS to reduce cost of infrastructure • Transformed the organization from waterfall to a globally distributed Agile process for rapid delivery and improved engineering efficiencies. • Dramatically improved the product release cadence from ad-hoc / rarely on time to a quarterly release cadence on time with high quality and predictability • Scaled the engineering team from 100 to 260 engineers globally • Implemented full DevOps practices • Co-located teams and site consolidation for improved efficiency • Member of the Veritas Technology Council

  • Symantec (San Francisco Bay Area)
    • VP Engineering
      May 2014 - Oct 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Led a 260 person engineering team delivering Symantec’s appliance products and a SaaS telemetry system hosted in AWS. Fastest growing organic business within Symantec.

    • Senior Director of Development
      Jul 2012 - May 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Led the Symantec Endpoint Protection Development team consisting of 150 engineers located in the US, China and India. Oversaw all aspects of development for Symantec's flagship enterprise product. Responsible for Windows, Mac, Virtualization endpoint protection and the Management Server. The product generated $800 million per year in revenue and had over half a million customers ranging from small businesses to large fortune 500 companies.

    • Director of Development
      Mar 2010 - Jul 2012 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Led the Symantec Endpoint Protection Server team. The team consisted of 50 engineers located in the US, China and India. Work closely with Architects, Product Management and Quality Assurance teams to deliver a world class enterprise product serving more than half a million customers.