Magic

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

I am a partner and CTO at Virtido, a platform for skilled, global IT talent that provides IT outstaffing and outsourcing services to product teams. I have over 12 years of experience as a digital entrepreneur, launching and managing various projects, mobile apps, and web applications. 

My mission is to help product teams overcome the challenges of finding, hiring, and managing expert tech talent, while ensuring high-quality, cost-effective, and compliant solutions. I leverage my expertise in scaling engineering teams and outsourcing to source, onboard, and coordinate the best tech talent available globally, within 2-4 weeks.

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