Engineering Manager with IC and Product experience. Programmer in Scala, Python, Javascript, with a love for backend services, APIs, DevOps, type safety, observability, logging and testing.
Directed a team of 9 engineers across the Bay Area and Spain, enhancing cross-functional collaboration and productivity.
Championed the development of a sophisticated software platform, utilizing Scala Play, Django Python, and React, which led to a 30% increase in platform efficiency.
Transitioned to CI/CD with GitHub actions, achieving a 40% reduction in deployment times and enhancing feature reliability.
Modernized infrastructure, improving scalability and reducing operational costs by 60%.
Steered the Interfaces and Infrastructure teams, enhancing system interoperability and user experience, and expanded the engineering team by recruiting 13 new members, improving team productivity by 20%.
Pioneered the "API First" initiative, significantly improving the external developer experience, and transitioned the team to Agile methodologies, resulting in a 30% improvement in project delivery times.
Served as Technical Architect for Atlassian University, leading the migration of learning data to a new platform, and managed the Training for Jira marketplace add-on, enhancing product integration and user experience.
Led the product team with a servant leadership philosophy, created product strategy to replace legacy systems, and re-established trust between engineering and sales teams, increasing customer NPS scores by 60%.
Acted as product owner for Bloomberg Vault Surveillance, implementing technology and policies to capture communications, improving data integrity and security for Bloomberg Terminal users.
Transitioned from Engineer to Technical PM for Rackspace Autoscale and Repose, defining product strategy and roadmaps, and presented Repose at OpenStack 2014, showcasing API Middleware Platform capabilities.