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Director of Engineering

Coinbase

- Lead an organization that builds and improves features for USDC on the entire Coinbase ecosystem, providing customers more reasons to hold and use USDC.
- Lead a team to build Coinbase's first issued token, cbETH, a liquid staking version of staked ETH, providing new utility and liquidity options for Coinbase and DeFi customers.

Senior Engineering Manager

Amazon

Lead an organization in Amazon Retail Consumer Electronics that builds scalable features for all of Retail. Team built and supported the Compare With Similar Items table on the detail page, the In House Installments feature that allowed customers to pay for products with installments, and a Guided Search feature for mobile that provided a better UX for customers filtering down search results.

Software Development Manager

General Networks Corporation

Lead all engineering, product, sales & marketing departments that deliver custom workflow, document management and portal solutions to clients. Hands on product/engineering work for key projects that drive high priority client relationship growth.

COO/CTO

Lead teams of product/engineering to develop custom solutions in the workflow automation and intranet portal spaces. Design and develop custom Microsoft SharePoint add ons to improve customer UX.

Director of Professional Services

Lead a pod of developers to implement custom workflow automation solutions for clients. Scoping, TDD, implementation and ongoing KTLO/OE contracts for high profile customers.

Practice Manager

Martin Worldwide

Design, scope and build a web based marketing list count/delivery system with C#/SQL backend and jQuery/JavaScript front end. Included authentication, role based permissions, cart/checkout capability and automated list delivery.

Full Stack Developer

QuikStor

Email/Phone software support for a Storage Facility Management thick client application. Development tasks to resolve small bugs and create patches for high priority issues/clients.

Technical Support Specialist

I post about Engineering Leadership, Strategy and Optimization.
As a Director of Engineering at Magic with over 16 years of engineering experience, I have had the opportunity to work with a wide variety of teams and technologies. Throughout my career, I have taken on many different roles, from software engineer to technical lead to engineering manager. 

I have worked with startups as well as large organizations, and I have experience with managing/mentoring both ICs and managers. I have led teams in delivering products from ideation to launch and have experience working with cross-functional teams to ensure the success of a project.

Owen Runnals

- Undisclosed For Now -

⭐ Fully remote, I integrated into a distributed team, utilizing Slack and Email to effectively communicate, align, and contribute to strategic and technical goals from day one.
⭐ Onboarding into this new role, I have began an in-depth review of the C++ codebase and current workflows to lay the foundation for future CI/CD implementation and build optimizations for a very complex and intensive chromium build process.
⭐ To align engineering with business strategy, I have engaged in mentorship sessions with leadership, gaining insights to guide future technical priorities.
⭐ Recognizing the importance of proactive security, I initiated a review of current security practices and infrastructure to support informed future planning.

Lead Senior Software Engineer

Full-stack software developer, handling everything from design and coding to testing, DevOps, Product Design, and maintenance and management of teams and projects.

I collaborate closely with clients, including startups or enterprise clients, to understand their needs and deliver custom solutions to business problems. Work is primary consulting and contracting doing software development over the full software development lifecycle.

My responsibilities have included included building cybersecurity efforts, building scalable applications, building mobile applications, building out or maintaining infrastructure, managing or building CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring top-notch code quality through software quality validation efforts through manual and automated testing such as continuous integration and continuous delivery.

More recently, working with or building out generative AI has been popular.

I also provide ongoing support and improvements, quickly adapting to changing requirements and new technologies to help clients achieve their goals, and have typically worked on a contract or time-scoped FTE role basis based on a statement of work agreed on in advance, leveraging disparate entities as required.

Principal Software Development Engineer

TailorWell Holdings, Inc.

Maintained and Managed software development, system upgrades, and DevOps across Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows environments. Reduced costs by minimizing Mac usage.

Key Responsibilities:
- Software Engineering Development and Software Engineering Management
- Handled unsupported codebase in GoLang, C#, T-SQL, Ruby, Python, PostgresDB,  and C (for gems/modules).
- Provided guidance on new test automation efforts for millions of lines of code that lacked tests.
- Lead other Developer in daily progression of tasks to get systems upgraded to maintain business continuity when old versions were out of support or no longer exist.  
- System Upgrades: Led upgrades from Ruby on Rails 3 (Intel Mac) to Rails 7 (M2 hardware).
- DevOps: Built CI/CD pipelines in Azure for .NET and Ruby projects.
- Sales/Support: Managed sales/support teams in addition to engineering duties.

Achievements:
- Standardized systems, reducing costs.
- Improved code quality with tests.
- Ensured business continuity through upgrades/fixes.
- Increased development efficiency with CI/CD pipelines.
- Provided support to sales/support teams, confirming preference for technical roles.

Metrics:
- Reduce costs of primary website hosting by 100% by moving it to local hosting that was already being paid for by the company.

Principal Software Engineer

Stealth Mode Startup under NDA that no longer exists.

•	Provide engineering leadership to support all possible elements of the engineering organization. Manage/Lead engineers as appropriate based on business priorities.  Coded in the trenches with team 
•	Tech Stack: GoLang (GIN), Python (Django), Continuous Integration (GitHub Actions, AWS CDK), AWS (CDK, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDS PostgreSQL), Serverless Architecture
•	Company no longer exists after buyout from a VC.

Principal Software Development Consultant

The Company name is confidential and will not be disclosed.

* Hired originally to report to the Director of Engineering, but reported to the CTO role.
* Deep Dove Companies Technical Stack and highlighted tasks to best serve company continuity.
* Lead Engineering Guild Efforts to upskill and mentor the engineering organization by breaking historical silos and supporting more effective communication between members of a multinational team.
* Leveraged prior experience in antifraud and security to assist with licensing security model to mitigate compliance risks.
* Was given a lot of startup swag - like socks - I do not use.

Riviera Partners

Hired as a fully remote sr. backend developer, and given a promotion within the same month to Staff Engineer after refusing a Principal Developer Role that was offered, because I wanted to add Staff Engineer to my resume first.  Project based role.

Augmented prior experience in recruiting by accepting formal training as a technical recruiter, taking training as needed to better understand and support the business and its back end systems.

Language Polyglot; Hired as a C# dev, they had no C#.  Instead dove into NodeJS/JavaScript, Rust, and Ruby as needed to support the business on AWS with some docker/Kubernetes.

Dove into CQRS and Event Based systems, Applicant Tracking Systems, Recruiting sales pipelines as a primarily backend engineer. Exposed to Svelte.

Staff Engineer

AiR Everywhere

* Wrote C# that I deployed  as the only backend developer to AWS via a BitBucklet Powered CI/CD pipeline I created, managed, and maintained myself to deploy a serverless and Lambda powered ASP.Net Core 3.1 API via the AWS CDK and dotnetcore tooling to ultimately host on standard Linux powered AWS Lambda AMI's.
* A small, minimal about of python3 scripting as needed for ad hock tasks such as file uploads to s3, validation, infrastructure as code, etc.
* Wrote multiple proof of concepts for REST API’s and subprojects with goals driven by investor goals, in an effort to as resourceful as possible given it was a startup.

Sr. Software Engineer

Information Security Focused Systems Software Development and Software Architecture role in the Amazon Tax Organization as the only Developer on the team (I was a unicorn; A single dev at Amazon is normally a principle FTE role, not a contractor; I wore all dev hats (Architect, Developer, TPM scoping work and order, coder, etc), working to build the tech required for financial and legal audits and to keep security standards for regulatory compliance. Successfully completed task list using CI/CD.

Java 8, Maven/Gradle, Jackson for JSON., AWS, AWS Java SDK (Including but not limited to AWS IAM, AWS S3, AWS Simple Directory, etc), Python, ZSH, Internal Tools for CI/CD on Linux and Windows 10

SysDev / Architect

DFK International, LLC

•	Personal Dashboard Development using Grafana, AWS, Python, C# .Net / ASP.NET And Server-less design philosophies leveraging Continuous Delivery and Continuous Test-Driven Development (CTDD).
•	Some programming language design for a small Domain Specific Programming language designed to take advantage of some custom hardware.
•	Multiple roles at different companies under stealth mode NDA's.
•	Done to heal after getting hit by a car.  I'm better now.

Freelance Solutions Engineer - Company Confidential

Microsoft

Member of the Microsoft Security Risk Detection team that used C#, F#, T-SQL, Power-shell / Batch (Windows), Python, Bash Scripting (Linux) and minimal Rust on the job using Azure to build Rest API's and Micro-services providing white-box and black-box security fuzzing as a service, with integrations meant to be used as part of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.   The first on-call duty I was a part of included both daily BVT's and Customer Incident Response.

More Info: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security-risk-detection/

Senior Software Development Engineer (V- Kalles Group)

As a Principal Software Engineer with many years of experience at top-tier tech companies (FANG) as well as startups, I lead challenging projects that involve reverse engineering, debugging, and optimizing legacy systems, as well as developing innovative solutions from scratch/zero.

My expertise spans full-stack development, architecture, and leadership across diverse technologies including C#, GoLang, Python, Java, C, NodeJS, Ruby, Rust, C++/COM+, SQL, and cloud-native design on AWS and Azure, both platforms I have helped design or maintain at their respective companies.

My mission is to drive innovation and contribute to humanity’s advancement while empowering my team through effective mentorship and engineering excellence. I specialize in big data, distributed systems, security, and CI/CD, delivering projects with success, thanks to a long career that includes experience at both FANG companies and startups. I'm interested in AI.

I hold certifications in servant leadership and effective teamwork, which reflect my commitment to service, transparency, inclusion, and compassion as an engineering manager who can code in the trenches with his team to better mentor and lead them to success.

Key Achievements:
Enhanced Security for Critical Infrastructure: Implemented comprehensive security protocols for a nationally critical infrastructure project, achieving a 90% reduction in vulnerabilities surface, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.

Improved Telecommunications Infrastructure: Lead development of REST APIs for phone number management & messaging systems, enhancing reliability and supporting significant business growth, leading to a successful company buyout.

Innovative Cloud Solutions: Led a team to develop a cloud-based automated server DFIR platform, increasing data processing efficiency by 85% and enabling real-time analytics.

Mentorship Impact: Mentored over 200 engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation, resulting in improved team performance and career growth.

Implemented Comprehensive Automated Testing:  Introduced automated testing processes across multiple projects, increasing test coverage from 0% to 85%, significantly reducing manual testing efforts and improving overall software quality and lowering ongoing maintenance costs significantly.

Availability:
Based in Seattle, WA (PST), I am available for fully remote roles only due to family commitments. I seek long-term opportunities to build meaningful connections and drive sustained growth

Please reach out for remote opportunities only.

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