Kris Schultz Email & Phone Number

Lincolnwood, Il, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

Director of Software Engineering leading data engineering and application development teams. Led data engineering team supporting data science, email detection, and network detection teams. Transitioned to leading a data platform team supporting data ingestion, incident correlation, and network detections for Cisco XDR. Overseeing teams working in Python, Django, and Java in AWS and Azure environments.- Partnered with product manager in response to critical customer needs, saving $9 million in revenue in one quarter.- Increased team delivery speed by 25% over two quarters by consistently coaching managers to address skill sets and align teams to focused backlogs.- Developed and executing a plan focused on retaining top talent through creative outlets, organizational visibility, and growth opportunities in spite of limited financial rewards.- Increased feature quality 50% in one quarter by embedding Quality Engineering into implementation teams, establishing recurring syncs with product management, and setting feature requirement standards.- Negotiated roadmap focus enabling the team to support twice the yearly growth of high-volume data pipelines from the rapid growth of the XDR product without additional engineers.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Senior Software Engineering Leader role supporting the Cisco Vulnerability Management/Kenna Security platform and data engineering teams. Managing teams using Ruby, Ruby On Rails, SideKiq, Apache Airflow, Apache Beam, Looker, and BigQuery. Facilitated agile team processes including refinement, retrospectives, and planning. Responsible for project management across multiple teams.- Recruited and trained engineering managers and technical leaders for Ruby and data teams to deliver feature backlog 40% faster.- Defined a metrics scorecard and implemented a recurring review policy to improve feature quality, development throughput, and operational stability by 33% within two quarters.- Built and executed a roadmap to define service level objectives and implement improvements to achieve 99.95% up-time for data ingestion, web application, and background processing.- Built and managed data engineering team that improved data warehouse reliability by 80% by optimizing Airflow DAGs and implementing monitoring with DataDog and Monte Carlo.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Director, and interim VP, of Software Engineering supporting the development and operations of Kenna Security. Leading five application development teams responsible for maintaining a Ruby on Rails application and Ruby based data ingestion pipeline.- Wrote incident response playbook to streamline outage response coordination which reduced outage duration 50% and prioritized technical action items to reduce outages by 75%.- Improved system performance 40% in 2 months by identifying opportunities to prioritize analyzing and optimizing the use of Sidekiq.- Leveraged the LESS Framework to align multiple engineering teams to the data integration backlog and unified prioritization of defects, technical debt, and new integrations.

Santa Clara, California, Us

As a Software Engineering Manager, I lead multiple engineering teams to achieve product development goals.- Led engineering teams through a transition from a hybrid environment to fully remote.- Led and coached four engineering teams to deliver vulnerability inference and SLA configuration features in the Saas product that contributed $1M in recurring revenue.- Instituted continuous improvement processes on multiple teams to improve scope clarity, transparency, and timely delivery of product features.- Hired software engineering managers and transitioned leadership responsibilities without a drop in team productivity.- Provided hands-on technical guidance and mentorship to my teams through code reviews, asking exploratory questions when refining stories, and recommending architectural approaches.

London, Gb

Managed up to five direct reports ranging from directors to software engineers. Responsible for 8 engineers in my reporting chain and 11 total on the teams I oversaw. Readied senior engineers for promotion to director and provide them coaching and support in their management responsibilities. Participated in the vetting, interviewing, and hiring of new engineers.Oversaw two development teams that focused on client priorities, the CMS, and internal tools to support media teams. Established technical priorities, ensured that best practices were being followed, and provided feedback on solution architectures.Facilitated the preparation of the 2020 technology department software budget. Reviewed line items from 2019, adjusted based on expected business, and identified areas of overspend due to paying for higher tiers of service than were required.

Chicago, Il, Us

Proposed approach for iteratively modernizing a legacy application including working with finance to fill out financial detail. Continued to manage engineers and lead development teams. Coordinated development of the CMS across multiple teams. Developed an engineer to take over team and technical leadership responsibilities for the CMS.Currently leading the next iteration of the CMS as the user base expands and the development team becomes distributed. Providing coaching to junior engineers and product owner while delivering direct feedback to managers to ensure consistent messaging.Managing three direct reports to provide feedback, coaching, and career guidance. Working with the managers of other engineers on the development team I lead to ensure feedback is given based on behaviors I observe.

Chicago, Il, Us

Tech lead and software engineer manager.Designed content management system and serving platform to enable expedient content management while supporting existing QA best practices. Focused the design of the platform to allow for services to be added and utilized via a standard communications protocol allowing for a consistent methodology for developing and interacting with the platform. Lead an initial team of three software engineers that has grown to four software engineers and two front end engineers. In addition to overseeing the development of the platform I am also actively mentoring the newly added front end engineers to increase their familiarity with the content management system so they can leverage their talents and improve the angular user interface.

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us