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Austin, TX, US

Sandy Springs, Georgia, US

• Successfully grew and restructured the Product Engineering team from 19 junior engineers to 80 professionals across multiple locations by implementing a strategic recruitment and training program.
• Implemented Agile methodologies, reducing release cycles from 10-12 weeks to bi-weekly deployments, increasing customer focus, and increasing efficiency by 30%.
• Introduced Continuous Discovery processes to the Product Management team, ensuring alignment with product development and improving customer satisfaction scores by 20%.
• Organized the 80-person Product Engineering team into six specialized groups focused on key business areas, improving project delivery speed by 25%.
• Streamlined support for Sales and Finance teams by integrating technology and software responsibilities for Salesforce and NetSuite into the Product Engineering organization, reducing response time by 15%.
• Led internationalization and localization of the Rebus platform, expanding functionality to the European market by accommodating different languages, currencies, and addresses, increasing European market revenue by 20%.

Austin, TX, US

• Identified and recruited top engineering talent by implementing a targeted recruitment strategy, driving new product development and optimizing the use of machine learning to identify and resolve security.
• Utilized Graph Neural Networks to uncover security vulnerabilities in source code, employing cutting-edge techniques, reducing potential breaches by 40%.
• Implemented Agile methodology to improve team efficiency and predict velocity, reducing missed stories by 20% and accelerating customer feature development while increasing business transparency.
• Optimized SaaS product offering to enhance software engineering organizations in areas such as SDLC, source security, system build, Docker containers, and infrastructure, improving system reliability by 30%.
• Bridged technology innovation with strategic business priorities by effectively communicating engineering priorities, requirements, and objectives to board members, investors, and stakeholders.
• Accelerated long-term success by fostering a shared understanding of the benefits and risks of business, product, organizational, and engineering planning across cross-functional business units, improving.

Austin, TX, US

• Led engineering team to develop and deploy disruptive software solutions using Node, Python, AWS, Redshift, and Elasticsearch, implementing CI/CD practices to support over 100 customers across 10 products.
• Expanded global engineering team from 14 to 85+ in one year by restructuring leadership roles and implementing an innovative recruiting program across the US, Costa Rica, Colombia, and Argentina, resulting in dramatic.
• Transformed data platform architecture by implementing a four-phase data pipeline using cutting-edge technologies such as Kafka, Matillion, and AWS, reducing data processing time by 50%.
• Boosted productivity by 100% within six months by transitioning to SCRUM methodology, doubling the project output rate.

Austin, TX, US

• Built and managed engineering team in developing and deploying disruptive software solutions across all product lines by implementing Agile processes and continuous integration practices.
• Executed global recruitment initiatives to build a development and testing organization in Costa Rica, increasing team size by 50% and reducing development costs by 20%.
• Led process reengineering initiatives by restructuring engineering groups to streamline project efficiency, improving project completion rates by 25%.
• Accelerated business success for large organizations by creating a strategy to quickly identify Medicaid fraud using advanced data analytics, reducing fraud detection time by 40%.

Austin, TX, US

Led and empowered engineering team in developing and delivering solutions that drove value across all products using AWS/EC2, RightScale, Java, ExtJS, and Scala. Highlights:➥ Increased quality assurance and compliance by leading integration, engineering development, and testing strategies with Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter as well as managed.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Managed incorporation and integration of Lombardi design, development, and testing process tools in conjunction with IBM Business Process Management (BPM) group.Highlights:➥ Grew Lombardi team by more than 20 developers and 10 testers acquired from North American and China IBM development and testing teams.➥ Supervised and guided Lombardi development and.

Austin, Texas, US

Managed and led United States and Ukraine based global teams (2 Managers, 15 Developers, 10 Manual Testers, 5 Quality Engineers, and 2 Documentation Writers) in the development and release of the Teamworks Software Suite of applications.Highlights:➥ Bolstered development team by creating an industry/college recruiting and interviewing program designed to.

Seattle, WA, US

Recruited, led, and managed team of 8 developers to create an Amazon.com automation website used to allow merchants registration for sales on Amazon's network and hardware infrastructure without manual intervention.Highlights:➥ Managed team and authored back-end service, user interface, and business synchronization training requirements needed by new.

New York, New York, US

Responsible for delivery of many of the features at insuranceOrder.com. My focus was on the integrations between us and third parties.

Austin, TX, US