Chris Astley

Head of Engineering Excellence

KPMG in the UK

Chris is responsible for Engineering for Data & AI solutions for KPMG globally. This role consists of leading the oversight and setting the Engineering standards for the build and run of all of our data and AI assets that we build on an international basis to serve our clients.

This global function has numerous capabilities around AI, Data Engineering, DevOps, Cloud, Application Development and Automation, allowing the firm to deploy applications and services quickly and easily to clients. Prior to taking this global role, Chris lead the Engineering Practice at KPMG UK which has given KPMG a competitive edge in terms of agility and speed to market and is assisting clients in gaining a similar capability themselves. Through these capabilities, KPMG has been able to deploy over 3,500 workloads to the cloud in support of our clients’ business transformation projects.

  • MSc (Hons) Advance Computer Science, University of Manchester, England

  • Software and Product Engineering

  • DevOps

  • Public Cloud

  • AI and Automation

  • Agile Methodologies