Senior Director, Software Engineering
San Francisco, Ca, Us
As the Senior Director of Engineering, I am responsible for managing the software development and QA teams for the WideOrbit's DIgital Ad Suite including Streaming, On Demand, and Digital Ad Exchance verticals. I make decisions regarding the direction of our software and technology choices, along with the architectural design of our application stacks.I manage three software teams and a QA team, each with their own lead/manager I and I still have a few key individual contributors that report directly to me. I invest in mentoring and growing my managers and believe in the philosophy that we should train people well enough so they can leave, but treat them well enough that they don't want to. Helping my teams understand how to reach their career goals is an important part of creating a skilled, motivated, loyal, high-performing team.I still try to get my hands dirty writing software on occasion to stay sharp, and I evaluate new technology regularly. We write full-stack SASS applications in Node JS, PHP, Javascript, React, C#, GoLang, MySQL, and BigQuery. We use tools in both AWS and GCP.I'm also responsible for a lot of product direction and decisions. Along with my UX Designer I approve and provide feedback on all UI work for our products.