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Accomplished Software Engineering Leader with deep hands-on and strategic leadership experience
15 years of experience driving strategic initiatives and leading high-performing, cross-functional teams. Expert in navigating complex, high-stakes business domains and managing through organizational change and ambiguity. Proven track record of delivering results through data-driven decision-making and iterative value delivery.
Recent Accomplishments
- Cut 30% of bloated project scope within 2 weeks of joining a team, without sacrificing functional requirements in collaboration with other project leadership
- 100% retention rate of direct reports in current role
- Coached and mentored team members, resulting in 3 promotions to senior roles and 1 promotion to manager with unanimous consensus from managerial team
- Identified and filled gap in competency definitions for staff engineer, leading to a successful promotion to senior staff engineer
Management Expertise
- Staffing & Org Design: DDD, Team Topologies, consultant models, offshoring, outsourcing, recruiting, hiring, strengths-based org and team design
- Deliverable Management: Kanban and Scrum certified, forecasting cycle times using Monte Carlo
Technical Expertise
- Languages: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Ruby, PHP, CSS/SCSS
- Platforms: AWS (serverless and EC2), Heroku, Linode, various LAMP stacks and one-off PaaS's
- Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Django, Sinatra, React, Express/NextJS
- Other Tools: CI/CD, Observability, upstream anomaly detection, TDD, resilient design patterns
Creator and Host of Developer Tea Podcast
- Top 100 podcast in iTunes Technology category with over 15 million downloads and over 1200 episodes
- Platform to share insights and grow as an engineering leader
Let's connect to discuss how I can bring my expertise in software engineering leadership, strategic thinking, and driving results to your organization. 