Ian Tabone
CTO / Technology Executive | Scaling High-Performance Engineering | High-Velocity Delivery | Large-Scale Platform Leadership
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CTO / Technology Executive | Scaling High-Performance Engineering | High-Velocity Delivery | Large-Scale Platform Leadership
Seasoned technology executive with 25+ years of experience leading engineering strategy, organizational scaling, and platform transformation across high-impact industries including online gaming, iGaming, fintech, and blockchain. Recognized for driving technical excellence in high-volume, transaction-intensive environments and shaping technology functions into high-performing, execution-driven organizations. Held senior leadership roles including CTO, Acting CTO, and Head of Technology, guiding technology vision, architecture, and operational strategy. Key achievements include restructuring and expanding engineering organizations to nearly 100 professionals, introducing modern development practices such as trunk-based development, automated QA, feature flagging, and CI/CD with embedded security. Led end-to-end modernisation initiatives—from migrating monolithic systems to microservices to deploying hybrid cloud infrastructures across AWS and private datacentres—enabling zero-downtime releases, improved reliability, and significant cost reductions. Known for elevating engineering culture, removing single points of failure, and establishing scalable delivery frameworks that accelerate innovation. Open to connecting with leaders and decision-makers across gaming, fintech, blockchain, and adjacent technology sectors.
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Work experience
Chief Technology Officer
Scout Gaming Group
Oct 2024 – Present
Malta
Head of Technology
Bullshark
Oct 2022 – Oct 2024
Head of Technology
Red Acre Ltd
Jul 2020 – Sep 2022
Technical Manager
Red Acre Ltd
Aug 2019 – Jul 2020
Devops
Red Acre Ltd
Jun 2019 – Aug 2019
Acting CTO (Devops Architect)
United Game Tech plc
Feb 2017 – Jun 2019
Malta
• Identifying any issues/weaknesses in production environments in order to deliver solutions • Working with different teams, identifying requirements, to provide solutions • Performing capacity planning in order to handle growing production environments • Find and test new infrastructure to improve operations • Automate recurring processes where possible • Prevention being better than cure, enhancing monitoring as far as possible • Liaising with 3rd party vendors and suppliers • Optimizing team communications to facilitate collaboration, resulting in improved and increased output • Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) together with the relevant testing
Head of IT Operations
Leaderbet
Feb 2016 – Feb 2017
Oversaw IT Operations covering both Internal IT as well as well as our customer facing systems. • Working with a mix of open source and proprietary applications • Design and deployment of HA setups • Automated recurring processes with various scripts • Debugging and investigation of issues to find the root cause, in order to address accordingly • Monitoring of server hardware, networking and applications • Installation, configuration and maintenance of servers and networking
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