Derek J. Campbell Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Az, Us

I founded Pumpd to bring a personalized, science-backed approach to fitness. Frustrated by generic workout plans, I developed a tool that generates custom workouts tailored to individual goals, fitness levels, and equipment.Let’s connect if you’d like to learn more about Pumpd or discuss opportunities in the fitness tech space!

New York, Ny, Us

• Collaborate with stakeholders in Product, Marketing, Design, Data, PMO, Finance, and HR to build features driving acquisition, conversion, and retention.• Cultivate a culture embodying our values: being catalysts for change, taking ownership, championing diversity, equity, and inclusion, enjoying our work, and upholding integrity.• Lead distributed teams with over 20+ engineers and managers across diverse products: Link-in-Bio, Analytics, Acquisition, Retention, Website Experience, and Conversion.• Communicate technical concepts to a less technical audience, bridging gaps and fostering understanding.• Plan and execute strategic hiring initiatives, emphasizing equitable hiring and talent development.• Develop and execute strategic roadmaps, prioritizing high-impact projects and making rapid decisions to align with organizational goals.• Foster continuous learning and development, mentoring engineers and managers to improve technical and managerial competencies.𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀• Achieved a 28% increase in target MRR through strategic initiatives and product enhancements.• Led technical initiaves which increased developer productivity by 15% and accelerated deployment times.• Enhanced user onboarding resulting in 12% increase to new customer engagement.• Rolled out a downgrade intervention flow reducing MRR churn by 16%.• Led MVP for an analytics dashboard resulting in 37% increased engagement rate and 2% lift of free-to-paid conversions.• Managed the transition and growth of multiple engineering teams, improving against team KPIs and completing key initiatives ahead of schedule.• Advocated for and implemented equitable hiring processes.• Improved acquisition funnel leading to 45% increase in conversion rate and 7% increase in paid subs.• Maintained a 100% engineer retention rate in 2023 through effective management of direct reports.

New York, Ny, Us

• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders in Finance, HR, Logistics, Distribution, IT, and Product• Create and promote technical and emotional culture• Manage project timelines and resources• Lead 6 distinct, distributed teams which include over 34 engineers, principal engineers, and managers• Design and implement strategies around training and talent development• Develop and execute against strategic initiatives in software engineering• Hire, train, and mentor new principal engineers and engineering managers • Establish administrative policies, procedures, and standards• Balance business needs with a sense of urgency to deploy high-quality software in a timely manner𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀✓ Enabled teams to effectively adapt to exceptional organizational change while maintaining a positive and optimistic attitude.✓ Contributed to the retention and hiring of key software engineers and engineering managers amidst intense market pressure (Great Resignation).✓ Coached and mentored engineering managers in areas such as culture, motivation, leadership, persuasion, and navigating office politics.✓ Developed detailed hiring strategy; including materials for conducting behavioral interviews that ensure equitable hiring practices.

New York, Ny, Us

• Define and execute against strategic initiatives in DevOps and TestOps• Hire, support, mentor, and train a core group of DevOps and TestOps professionals• Prepare and manage budget for engineering organization• Establish administrative policies, procedures, and standards𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀✓ Implemented agile processes to increase feature delivery by 100%✓ Lead successful cloud infrastructure migration from Heroku to Google Cloud Platform✓ Facilitated delivery of in-house release pipeline tooling – complete with robust staging deployments✓ Standardized staging, CI, and production environments to eliminate drift and increase confidence✓ Automated accessibility, visual regression, and performance testing into CI pipeline✓ Architected centralized test automation configuration for cross-project use✓ Designed and delivered Test Automation training curriculum across engineering organization

New York, Ny, Us

• Define and execute against strategic initiatives in the test automation space• Build, execute, and maintain automated testing strategies and frameworks across applications, devices, and platforms• Lead, support, and mentor a core group of test automation resources• Enable continuous integration and continuous delivery• Leverage quality control tools and metrics to discover defects and make recommendations for resolution𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀✓ Achieved 0-100% automated test coverage of RESTful APIs consumed by mobile app✓ Rapidly trained and upskilled a team of 5 test automation resources✓ Reduced average CI/CD build time by 10 minutes per build to save 170 developer hours per month✓ Reduced test execution time by 50% to save $12K annually on CI/CD costs✓ Greatly improved test environment and test data management processes

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

• Utilized a $650K budget and 55+ distributed QA resources to execute against strategic initiatives in the quality assurance space• Lead design and architecture of new automated testing strategies and frameworks• Provided support, mentoring, professional development, and training for Sr. and Jr. level QA resources• Established a Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) who engaged with teams to develop frameworks, improve automation coverage, and support QA resources𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀✓ Spearheaded transition to risk-based testing to reduce average application time under test by 20%✓ Utilized TCoE to develop boilerplate UI, API, and performance automation frameworks to rapidly implement automated testing on 5 teams✓ Hired and on-boarded 12 new QA resources in 3 months to ensure on-schedule product delivery✓ Developed and implemented a set of defined standards for test planning, design, implementation, execution, and evaluation called “QA the Republic Way”✓ Reduced SaaS automated testing tool costs by $90K/year by migrating to open-source alternatives

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

• Worked within Agile/Scrum environment to lead end-to-end quality assurance of complex web and mobile applications through a combination of manual and automated testing• Researched, architected, and integrated test automation solutions using Protractor, TypeScript, JavaScript (ES2017), Cucumber, Karate, Gatling, and Frisbyjs𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀✓ Developed executable scripts to acquire, transform, and manage test data that reduced overall QA workload by 600 hours/year✓ Performed large-scale test automation refactor that resulted in 25% decrease in run-time, 20% increase in coverage, reduced code redundancy, and greatly improved code reusability✓ Drafted QA on-boarding and training materials for use across organization✓ Implemented automated testing solutions across 10 core teams to achieved 83% test automation coverage for the organization✓ Reduced SaaS automated testing tool costs by $35K/year by migrating to open-source alternatives

New York, Us

• Worked within Agile/Scrum environment to lead end-to-end quality assurance of complex web and mobile applications through a combination of manual and automated testing• Researched, architected, and integrated test automation solutions using Protractor, JavaScript (ES6), and Cucumber𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀✓ Architected test automation framework from 0-100% coverage within 3 months

New York, Ny, Us

• Using Agile methodologies, collaborated with a diverse team to plan, develop, test, and maintain internal web applications that supported American Express’s Credit Authorization System. • Continuously delivered improvements and optimizations to TPF Source Control Management system. 𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀✓ Integration of automation processes to TPF Source Control Management system✓ Developed web application that allowed users to view streaming and versioned console data✓ Developed Google Blockly plugin that dynamically wrote C code from logical blocks

Phoenix, Az - Arizona, Us

• Created innovative, skill-based lessons to engage students using thematic-based units of study that included speaking, listening, technology, ELA, social studies, and math standards• Created and utilized various formal and informal assessments of student learning• Collected, organized, and analyzed assessment data to guide instruction

Bachelor'S Degree, Elementary Education And Teaching

Associate'S Degree, Liberal Arts And Sciences, General Studies And Humanities