Scott Prugh

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Scott Prugh

Executive Vice President & CTO, Biller · ACI Worldwide · verified 2026-09-04

Scott Prugh is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at ACI Worldwide, a role he’s held since June 2025, after serving as CTO at Uturn Data Solutions and GVP of Engineering at UKG, where he led global engineering teams within a $2B annual revenue portfolio. Earlier in his career, he was CTO and Chief Architect at CSG, where his strategic direction drove revenue generation exceeding $655M, and he cofounded and served as CTO of Telution, developing technologies for communications companies. He’s a longtime voice in the DevOps community, having first spoken at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in 2014 about CSG’s grassroots DevOps and Lean transformation, and returned in following years to share how the organization scaled its delivery practices.

From a paper they wrote for us, 2026

2 in the library15 talksPublishing since 2021

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Publications, talks, and the roles they came out of — one thread, newest first.

2026

Guidance paperWhen Coding Is Free, Where Is the Bottleneck?

with Timothy Cochran, Bryan Finster & 2 others

2025

TalkSpoke at Connect Feb 2025 and Las Vegas 2025

2 talks

2025

RoleExecutive Vice President & CTO, Biller

ACI Worldwide · 2025

2023

TalkACCOUNTING VS. PHYSICS – Coordination Costs and How Organizations Win

Las Vegas 2023 · 30 min

2023

RoleChief Technology Officer

Uturn Data Solutions · 2023 – 2025

2022

TalkACCOUNTING VS. PHYSICS – How Coordination Costs Are Killing Your Effectiveness

Las Vegas 2022 · 20 min

2022

RoleGVP Engineering

UKG · 2022 – 2023

2021

Guidance paperAccelerating Shared Services

with Charles Betz, Erica Morrison & 4 others

2021

RoleChief Technology Officer

CSG · 2021 – 2022

2020

TalkSpoke at London 2020 and Las Vegas 2020

2 talks

2019

TalkDevOps & Modernization - An Engineering Excellence Story

Las Vegas 2019 · 30 min

2018

TalkSpoke at Las Vegas 2018 and London 2018

3 talks

2017

TalkMore Culture, More Engineering, Less Duct-Tape

San Francisco 2017 · 28 min

2016

TalkWhen Ops Swallows Dev

San Francisco 2016 · 30 min

2016

RoleChief Architect & SVP Software Engineering

CSG · 2016 – 2021

2015

TalkConway & Taylor Meet the Strangler (v2.0)

San Francisco 2015 · 29 min

2014

TalkDevOps and Lean in Legacy Environments

San Francisco 2014 · 25 min

2014

RoleChief Architect & VP Software Development

CSG · 2014 – 2016

2010

RoleChief Architect

CSG · 2010 – 2014

2006

RoleSenior Principle Systems Architect

CSG · 2006 – 2010

1998

RoleCo-Founder / Chief Technology Officer

Telution · 1998 – 2006

1993

RoleLead Architect

Andersen Consulting · 1993 – 1997