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Stephen Dick is VP of infrastructure engineering at Paylocity, where he drives modernization and operational excellence across corporate infrastructure, public cloud, data centers, developer productivity, site reliability and FinOps. His teams enable the company’s rapid scale while advancing financial maturity and reliability across the organization.
Beyond Paylocity, Stephen serves as president of the DevOps Institute’s Silicon Valley chapter, a committee chair within the FinOps Foundation and a member of IDC’s CIO Executive Council, roles through which he helps shape industry standards and community practice in modern cloud operations and financial optimization. Previously, Stephen held senior leadership positions at global enterprises including SAP and Salesforce, where he led Infrastructure, DevOps and SRE teams supporting the world’s largest iPaaS. He has also guided multiple companies through billion-dollar acquisitions, translating technical transformation into enterprise value.
Originally from Ireland, Stephen holds a bachelor’s degree in Management and Information Systems from Queen’s University Belfast and now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.