Technical engineering leader with strong customer orientation and more than three decades of experience spanning startups, enterprises, hardware, software, engineering, operations, support, and sales. Experienced in building and operating excellent teams and leaders; large-scale distributed systems; engineering brand/culture; systems, process, and workflow design/automation.Built and led global teams of 15-300 by working to make each person a valued member of a winning team on inspiring mission, then aligning their passion to customer value. Firm believer in servant leadership and have grown excellent leaders and team members using a combination of coaching, mentoring, and explicit goal management spanning both professional and personal areas of growth.Shipped software as a service offerings to consumers and businesses dozens of times daily, as well as packaged software to consumers Fortune 100 companies on a steady monthly cadence, using agile and lean methodologies, CI/CD, and a focus on shipping the maximum value with the minimum effort. Strong believer in highly automated product development pipelines that relieve engineers of unnecessary cognitive burdens so they can focus on making high quality code quickly and safely.tl;dr: I love solving challenging problems, leading and mentoring excellent teams, learning and growing myself, leading technical strategy, and deep operational involvement. I lead with passion, respect, integrity, and candor. I hire well, value diversity highly, and love growing teams of excellent people.