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Fort Worth, Tx, Us

Led and oversaw iterative scaling of engineering teams, leveraging data analytics to measure success, assess impact, and enhance the developer experienceLed a migration from Heroku to AWS, creating a more modern, cost-effective, and developer-friendly infrastructureManaged and forecasted cloud infrastructure budget, driving initiatives to optimize AWS, DataDog, and PagerDuty expensesImplemented a postmortem process across the engineering organizationManaged quarterly OKR planning for infrastructure and platform teams and developed executive-reviewed roadmapsEstablished a career growth track for engineers, held regular 1:1 meetings, and facilitated numerous promotions, fostering professional development and team advancement

Austin, Texas Area

Directed infrastructure management and operations for a fast-growing drone software startup, providing a reliable and scalable technology foundationEstablished release management practices, integrated CI/CD pipelines within GitLab, and set up monitoring and alerting systemsReworked and implemented a new agile process enabling mobile and web engineering teams to deliver new features more rapidlyDelivered technical training programs for First Responders, combining classroom instruction with immersive, hands-on field training experiencesNurtured engineers through mentorship and coaching, providing career guidance and fostering growth through regular one-on-one meetings and constructive feedbackDeveloped Engineering Ladder for both individual contributors and management tracks for career growth within the engineering organizationCoordinated with engineering, design, and product teams to develop and deliver new features iteratively, successfully meeting roadmap and timeline objectives for customer releases

Austin, Texas Area

Led the DevOps, Infrastructure, and Quality teams, orchestrating efforts to establish a scalable and dependable infrastructure, supporting the growth of a FinTech companyImplemented an Incident Response program and actively engaged in an on-call rotation schedule, ensuring constant availability and prompt response to incidentsDoubled the size of the engineering organization in 2 years. Led the implementation, training, and coaching of agile practices, achieving balanced teams and improved predictability in project timelines.Designed user stories for subscription product features

Austin, Texas Area

Managed 8 developers and test engineers overseeing 4 platform services while leading bi-monthly sprint activities. Focused on optimizing production and deployment schedules and processes allowing for multiple releases daily. Worked with relevant stakeholders to gather business requirements for new systems or improvement of current systems. Spearheaded product research strategy analyzing consumer data, SEO, and usability.

Alexandria, Va