Jeff Devine Email & Phone Number

Miami, US

London, GB

• Hired by Toa Re to develop a unified data strategy and direct the design and execution of a Data Lake and analytics platform.
• Engaged by Merck to drive AWS cost reductions via architectural adjustments and automation, achieving $700k in YoY savings.
• Retained by a health tech company to build an LLM-based chatbot trained on their proprietary data to be sold as a consumer Q&A product.

Hamilton, Bermuda, BM

• Hired to modernize aging systems and engineering department to support the corporate goal of doubling revenue within five years.
• Presented a strategy to executives for platform modernization and cloud transition, securing increased annual budgets and staff expansion.
• Revamped a global initiative by reorganizing the engineering team and adjusting architecture, rescuing the project and saving $1.3MM yearly in licensing costs.
• Led a multi-year cloud migration to AWS, focusing on DevOps and infrastructure automation, enabling a lean team to maintain and enhance functionality, reducing the operational budget by 15% and staff needs by 2 FTEs.
• Led the re-platforming of a 17-year-old Enterprise Data Warehouse, reducing the overnight batch process by 10 hours and increasing overall reporting performance by 20%.
• Identified a deficiency in business ownership for corporate initiatives and established a quarterly governance structure with C-level executives improving buy-in, prioritization, accountability, and communication gaps.

Hamilton, Bermuda, BM

• Responsible for building an engineering culture focused on modern development practices, automation, and delivery of business value.
• Invested early in automation and DevOps practices in building the enterprise cloud implementation, allowing a much smaller team to support and expand functionality keeping budget and FTE headcount low.
• Documented and codified engineering best practices and created model repositories and practices across the enterprise standardizing coding standards, deployments, and observability, allowing engineers to focus on.
• Assessed skills of 80 FTEs and 100+ contractors, leading to restructuring and custom training, boosting morale, and closing technology skill gaps.

London, GB

• Consulting practice helping large companies embrace digital technology.
• Retained by Merck to rescue a failing Accenture project. Completed it on time with a lean team, full test coverage, automated development pipeline, and deployment process.
• Hired by Vault Insurance to lead the implementation of Unqork as their core underwriting platform resulting in over $100M in written premiums.
• Hired by Allied World to build a proof-of-concept validating their organizational readiness to start a cloud migration resulting in a plan to fix their skill gap and operational deficiencies.

New York, NY, US

• Hired to fix an underperforming engineering team and broken prototype to keep the company alive long enough to secure the next round of funding.
• Tasked with an architecture review to eliminate platform instability and performance issues resulting in a new technology roadmap and engineering team restructuring.
• Rebuilt the engineering team to bolster the current prototype enabling investor demos without stopping progress on a new, HIPAA-compliant platform securing 3.5MM in funding.

London, GB

• Contracted to help companies adopt DevOps and Cloud Computing practices.
• Contracted by Merck to establish a “startup within a company,” creating a software development and DevOps model that formed the foundation for a 250+ person development hub in the Czech Republic.
• Retained by First Data to add observability and DevOps practices for their Payeezy product resulting 5x increase in deployment frequency and cutting the change fail percentage in half.
• Contracted by ProExam to modernize their engineering team and platforms, up-skilling engineers, and migrated two SaaS platforms to AWS, saving thousands in yearly licensing costs.

• Sole founder of a SaaS-based startup providing paperless board meetings.
• Developed all aspects of the product, including the iPad app, web-based management portal, and backend APIs.

Hamilton, Bermuda, BM

• Responsible for managing all architecture, development, and support aspects of AWAC's Enterprise Data Warehouse.
• Designed and built an interactive P&L performance dashboard so widely adopted that it became the primary global source of truth for executives’ quarterly review of targets to actuals.
• Managed and expanded a global SQL developer and DBA team to support the EDW and reporting tools, reducing downtime and enhancing overall reporting performance by 25%.

Hamilton, Bermuda, BM

Responsible for building a.NET WCF-based SOA pilot architecture that provides real-time data access to the Enterprise Data Warehouse.

Pembroke, HM, BM

• Promoted to lead and build finance and data integrations to keep up with the company's rapid growth and expansion.
• Responsible for managing and implementing all phases of the SDLC for backend and downstream financial systems.

Pembroke, HM, BM

• Developed a C# workflow app to automate the monthly financial close, posting over $5 billion in written premium annually, reducing the process by four days per month.
• Wrote an RPA.NET library for Genius, an AS/400-based system, automating policy, endorsement, and claim entries laying the groundwork for a modern web interface for a legacy platform.