Rupert Whitley

Rupert Whitley has been working in the IT industry since 2005. Rupert began their career at IOP Publishing as a System Support Analyst and Senior Desktop Support Analyst. In 2010, they were promoted to Head of Service Delivery and then to Service Delivery Manager. In 2017, they moved to DevOpsGroup, where they worked as a Senior Agile Delivery Manager. Rupert is currently working at Brightpearl as a Software Development Manager, where they provide support, guidance and direction to product teams, as well as coaching and mentoring.

Rupert Whitley's education history includes a BSc in Chemistry with Psychology from the University of Warwick from 1995 to 1998. Rupert has also obtained several certifications, including an Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in June 2020, a G2G3 Certified Facilitator (DevOps) from G2G3 in February 2019, a Business Analysis Practice from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT in March 2014, an ITIL Intermediate Level: Service Offerings and Agreements (SOA) from Exin in February 2012, an ITIL Intermediate Level: Release, Control and Validation (RCV) from Exin in September 2010, an ITIL Foundation (v3) from APMG-UK in October 2007, a SAFe 4 Agilist Certificate from Scaled Agile, Inc. in October 2019, a Certified ScrumMaster from Scrum Alliance in June 2016, an AWS Business Professional, an AWS Cloud Economics, and an AWS Technical Professional from Amazon Web Services (AWS), a Digital Product Management from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and a Foundation Certificate in Agile from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.