Led the cloud engineering space with a focus on infrastructure, automation, and reliability engineering to support the development and delivery of Granular’s ag-tech SaaS platform. Developed and implemented a cloud-native strategy to manage costs while meeting company objectives and KPIs. Drove a culture of continuous improvement and empowerment to increase the health of the engineering teams.

Led the implementation of a software architecture practice within Granular. Developed a principle-driven architectural vision and strategy, evangelized the vision and strategy to gain the buy-in of the organization, drove change throughout the organization through influence and relationship development. Developed processes and an operating model to ensure new work adhered to the vision. Drove consistency and standards while achieving greater cohesion and teamwork across the entire organization. Partnered with senior leadership to ensure appropriate and necessary technical runway was developed to deliver on the companies objectives.

Responsible for the vision and strategy of the software engineering teams building the Granular SaaS platform. Drove delivery of the platform and Insights software product.

Led efforts to build out a next-generation cloud platform to support agriculture-focused SaaS. Responsibilities include leading numerous engineering managers and teams each responsible for specific platform services to deliver on platform and product objectives, developing platform technical roadmaps, requirements, and setting architectural direction, driving continuous improvement initiatives to up our overall engineering culture and velocity, implementing practices such as continuous delivery to ship new high quality features to production several times a day, manage the overall platform delivery effort which involved coordination across many teams and functions.

Responsible for the overall software and cloud architecture for the Encirca decision agriculture platform. Additionally, I lead a team of Cloud Engineers focused on building core services and systems for Encirca. Accomplishments included establishing a microservices architecture based on serverless technology while also establishing a strong DevOps culture and Site Reliability Engineering as a practice.