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Austin, Texas, Us

• Responsible for the Enterprise Candidates organization and role scoped to lead ~80 headcount• Grew direct org 2.5x to 50+ HC: 1 Sr. Mgr, 4 Mgrs, 1 Tech. Fellow, 1 Principal SWE, 5 Staff SWE, 30 SWE, + other roles• Dotted-line managing ~10 additional product teams (~50 SWE) across Indeed (4 GM orgs)• Directly lead 4 business-critical product areas: - Candidate Management Platform (systems for ingesting, persisting, and exposing Indeed candidate data) - Ent. Messaging (systems driving connections between Jobseekers and Employers) - Ent. Candidate List (frontend surface for managing candidates) - Ent. Candidate Management (capabilities to drive candidates through the hiring flow)• Achieved 100% Progress-Through-Level performance review, demonstrating successful next-level performance and continued day-to-day operation at Director-level• Grew and promoted a principal engineer to a technical fellow (beyond my level) and a manager to a senior manager• Built a new multi-year, cross-company program to rework Indeed’s core conversational messaging infrastructure - Envisioned and pitched program to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), engineering and product directors - Achieved unprecedented alignment across key senior leadership and acquired resource investment/funding - Unlocks: Modern messaging capabilities, more consistent end-user messaging experience, faster feature development, and unifies messaging engineering across the company - #1 example the CEO and other executive leaders share in all-hands meetings of a large-scale cross-company bridge team with successful collaboration, execution, and delivered impact - Directly drove resourcing planning, workstreams and leads structure, achieved buy-in to act as a pool of teams swarming on the highest-priority initiatives - Components: Employer and Jobseeker message storage, real-time message delivery, GQL infra., a modern React UI, etc.• Grew 2 managers towards manager-of-managers (1 promoted)

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Role scoped to manage ~35 headcount including multiple managers.• Managed and built business-critical ad infrastructure for Thursday Night Football, MLB, French Open, WNBA, and more.• My ad systems powered internal partners: Twitch, Prime Video, IMDbTV (Freevee), FireTV, and more.• Owned a worldwide highly distributed video ad delivery system. - 3XX million API requests daily. - Automatically scaled to support millions of transactions per second for live sporting events. - All transactions less than 1 second latency each.• Improved X million concurrent viewers support for live events by 20x with a re-architecture of the system design, while continuing to support $Y billion in impressions flowing through my systems.• Decreased the yearly $XX million infrastructure spend by 35% and decreased the time to scale up fleets, with 1000s of EC2 instances across the world, from days to hours.• Envisioned and built a large-scale isolated load test tool, decoupling from end-to-end Worldwide Ads org coordinated testing. Time to setup and run a load test dropped from a week to half a day, required no external teams, and cost 80% less.• Revitalized a team in reactive fire-fighting mode, and turned it into a forward-looking team focused on future stakeholder needs and able to build out new use cases in our services.• Managed headcount, team structure, recruiting, and retention. Grew the org 100% in a challenging job market.• Turned ambiguous product and organizational strategy for 3 year initiatives into concrete workstreams, while driving tactical solution building, daily KTLO work, integration with new teams and systems, architecture, and system design.• Maintained a manager Connections score (IC manager’s upward rating) of 4.8/5, above org average of 4.2.• Owned data pipelines pushing X TB each day, and drove towards supporting 10x within a year.• Provided mentorship, career development opportunities, and guided a SWE3 through the transition to manager.

Clearwater, Fl, Us

• Managed multiple teams of managers, software engineers, ops + analytics, and product roles on 4 high-volume transaction advertising distribution platforms using SMS, email, and push delivery channels.• Helped craft north star vision, strategic roadmap, and define requirements.• Delivered superior team outputs by driving higher quality deliverables, utilizing more focused testing, growing test coverage ~10x, reducing deployment time by ~40%, and reducing test suite run time by ~60%.• Reduced AWS monthly recurring spend by 28% with no impact to performance or capability.• Owned the ETL and reporting from a 20+ TB data warehouse. Vetted the SOW, design, and rollout of a new data lake pipeline to improve storage 10x, decrease report generation time from minutes to seconds, and trim engineering cost.• Improved efficiency by transforming recurring manual maintenance into automated processes and eliminating the need for daily manual intervention. Removed weeks of hands-on development time each year.• Achieved visibility for teams, stakeholders, and executives by introducing monitoring, analytics, and BI in production.• Grew delivered feature velocity by 2x with the same time spend. Transitioned development process from a daily putting out-fires workflow to one with a manageable cadence, a more predictable and higher velocity, less stress for the team and stakeholders, and higher quality with fewer bugs and regressions.• Produced a 3x improvement in platform transactional volume, drove better SLO requirements, and increased stability by optimizing product performance across the board. Strategies included caching, code optimization, streamlining expensive tasks, and shifting work to asynchronous processing.• Created a career-development-focused atmosphere through peer mentoring, pair programming, lunch and learns, embracing cross-training, and making opportunities available to tackle unfamiliar projects.

The culmination of years of entrepreneurial experience. Solo founded a commercial website from scratch selling one-of-a-kind high-quality and personalized physical art prints.• Designed a compelling product, crafted a business model, converted that into logistical and technical requirements, drafted a strategic roadmap with features and milestones, and executed. Evolved the platform onto AWS that: was faster, could dynamically scale, and had richer features. Managed marketing, coordinated legal needs, and designed analytics reports.

Waco, Texas, Us

• Managed and grew a team to develop a Ruby on Rails + React SaaS product in the EdTech and HRtech space.• Maximized the team’s ability to produce by taking on multiple roles. Led requirements gathering and creation, sprint planning and prioritization, risk management, release deployments on AWS, code reviews, and Agile meetings. Grew test coverage, ensured code quality, and acted as team Scrummaster.• Developed core architecture and codebase that included an admin management suite, rich user features, educational course analysis capability, exposed a JSON API, and integrated with internal microservice APIs.• Coordinated with creative, product, and sales/marketing to deliver maximum business impact for stakeholders.• Wrote job requirements, conducted phone screens, and ran interviews.• Grew the team by hiring, onboarding, and mentoring engineers and a product owner.• Accelerated team velocity and work quality by minimizing impediments, resulting in more in-the-flow work.

Waco, Texas, Us

• Managed timeline, feature planning, Ruby on Rails API code development, and 3rd-party API integration for a project to add a survey platform: survey creation, question formatting, email sending, and response gathering.• Architected and developed RESTful API that exposes JSON endpoints for an Ember front-end to consume.• Developed automated test suite and create comprehensive API documentation.• Analyzed multiple survey platforms for feasibility while planning future projects.

Yonkers, Ny, Us

• Built out a cross-disciplinary engineering team to work on projects that expanded the scope of what Consumer Reports was known for in digital health.• Managed a team of overseas contractors and contributed as technical lead on an interactive special report web page with a vanity endpoint.• Found inefficiencies in AWS infrastructure that resulted in savings of 15% of spend a month.• Led team on internal R&D projects to test out new tools and UI layouts.• Delivered recommendations to CIO for determining Consumer Report’s direction and projects in the emerging digital health space through product exploration and ideation.• Built team expertise and understanding of the healthcare space where it intersects with digital products.• Drafted executive summary reports for upcoming fiscal budget, staffing requirements, and future work on an AWS-based cloud software product for the CIO, CFO, Sr. Director of Systems Engineering, and VP of Advocacy.• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO).

Foster City, California, Us

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