Derek Perry

Derek Perry

Derek Perry is Sparq’s chief technology officer, focused on guiding the company’s technology strategy, solution development and our AI-accelerated ways of working. His career has focused on applied problem solving in consulting and driving speed-to-value for clients in mission critical domains. Over his more than 13 years at Sparq, he has overseen the company’s innovation and AI functions, and enjoys spending time in the field helping organizations adopt AI.

E-Commerce

Retail Technology Has a Speed Problem, Not a Scale Problem

April 15, 2026 at 2:35 pm

The retail industry spent the past decade building big. Scale was every CIO's mantra — massive systems designed to support millions of users and petabytes of data. And for a while, that strategy worked. E-commerce platforms handle holiday spikes. Cloud infrastructure powers businesses of every size. The engineering challenge of scale has largely been solved.…