Stephen M. Dick is a senior infrastructure and cloud engineering leader who specializes in turning complex, distributed systems into reliable, cost-efficient platforms at scale. As VP of Infrastructure, Cloud and Platform Engineering at Paylocity, he leads a 150+ person global organization spanning AWS, Azure and physical data centers, where his teams design, build and run hybrid cloud environments that support high-growth SaaS workloads. His track record includes cutting infrastructure spend by double digits while increasing capacity, driving mean-time-to-recovery down from hours to minutes, and consistently achieving 99.99 percent availability through mature SRE, DevOps and FinOps practices.
Across prior roles at companies such as BetterCloud, Salesforce, SAP and others, Stephen has built and scaled reliability and cloud engineering teams that directly impact revenue, customer retention and product velocity. He has led technical due diligence and post-merger platform integration for multi-billion-dollar acquisitions including MuleSoft and Marketo, launched automated FedRAMP-ready platforms that opened new regulated markets, and embedded FinOps disciplines that brought cloud costs from double-digit COGS to sub six percent of revenue. A regular industry voice as a FinOps Foundation member, Silicon Valley chapter president for the DevOps Institute and member of the IDC CIO Executive Council, he combines hands-on cloud expertise with boardroom fluency, positioning infrastructure and reliability as strategic growth levers rather than back-office cost centers.