Kipp Is Ready for His Next Engineering Director Role

Kipp Sherer - Professional Profile

Introduction

Kipp Is Ready for His Next Engineering Director Role

15-year platform engineering leader, scaled SaaS globally and cut cloud spend 50%.

Las Vegas, Nevada

About

I make cloud platforms cheaper to run, safer to ship, and easier to trust.

I have spent my career in the unglamorous middle, where big migrations, reliability, and compliance either quietly work or loudly fail. I like taking the scary stuff, cost spikes, audits, accessibility gaps, and turning it into clear systems teams can actually operate. The best compliment I get is, "we can move faster now, and sleep at night."

I have led modernization where it actually counts, in production, under real traffic, with real constraints. At PriceSpider I helped move a major platform from data center to cloud, including 400+ servers, while supporting services handling 30M calls per day.

I bring compliance execution, not compliance theater. I have shipped privacy controls for GDPR/CCPA, and delivered accessibility work that reached WCAG AA certification, the kind of detail that can unblock deals and protect teams from last minute fire drills.

I am most useful when the mandate is "do more with less" without gambling on reliability. I build operating models that connect engineering decisions to cost, risk, and delivery speed, especially as AI workloads raise the stakes on governance and spend.

If you know a VP Engineering, Platform leader, or CTO hiring for modernization, FinOps, platform engineering, or compliance by design, I would value an intro. If sharing is easier, a LinkedIn repost with one sentence about why this work matters is a huge help.

Target roles: Director of Engineering, Cloud Modernization and FinOps, Head of Platform Engineering, Developer Experience and Reliability, Engineering Leader, Compliance by Design and AI Enablement

Get in Touch

Hi, I'm Kipp. I'm a technical leader passionate about AI/ML and cloud modernization, with a strong track record in scaling global engineering teams. Would love to chat if you're working on something in cloud platform engineering or AI enablement.

Kipp Sherer linkedin.com/in/kippsherer

Kipp brings over 15 years of experience in engineering leadership, specializing in scalable AI/ML solutions and cloud optimization, making him a valuable asset for any tech-driven organization.

Experience

Director of Engineering, Where-To-Buy at PriceSpider (Now Wayvia) (Apr 2018 - Apr 2024)

Senior Software Architect at Natural Health Sherpa (May 2016 - Apr 2018)

Co-Founder at Drive-On-In, Inc. (Jan 2012 - May 2016)

Director of Online Search Technology at Zurvita Holdings, Inc. (ZRVT) (Jun 2010 - Jan 2012)