Vail Gold

Engineering Manager

Philadelphia, PA, United States15 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led development of a $5M revenue product.
Implemented a self-service cloud platform with 1,000 deployments.
Migrated cloud infrastructure saving $150k monthly.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS engineering leader with extensive DevOps expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavascriptDevopsAwsAgile MethodologiesPythonDjangoMongodb

Other Skills

Performance ManagementdockerSecure Shell (SSH)TerraformSQLMentoringProcess ImprovementPython (Programming Language)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Shell ScriptingGitLinuxGo (Programming Language)Vue.js

About

I'm an experienced technologist and people-oriented leader. I bring open-mindedness, empathy and systematic thinking to my work, because it helps me achieve team stability, satisfaction and productivity. I have worked across technology stacks and multiple industries, including finance and adtech, and have made material impacts on operations, revenue, recruiting and retention for companies. I've brought new products to market, migrated clouds, built high-scale distributed systems and more.

Experience

15 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 9 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Cloudflare

Engineering Manager

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Remote

Human

Director of Engineering

Jul 2018 – Mar 2023 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Remote

Led development of BotGuard for Applications, which achieved $5M in revenue with ACV over $300k in its first year in the market, enabling fundraising which led to purchase of market-leading competitor, PerimeterX.
Implemented DevOps by delivering a new, self-service cloud platform, including staging environment, push-button deployments and automated release management, reaching 1,000 deployments in under one year.
Led delivery of internal data investigation and processing tools to improve fraud mitigation.
Led the infosec team through rigorous, customer-led security questionnaires and audit processes.
Led the re-design of department-wide roadmap planning and alignment processes.

JavaScriptPerformance ManagementDevOpsdockerAgile MethodologiesSecure Shell (SSH)+14

Capital one

Senior Engineering Manager

Sep 2017 – Jul 2018 · 10 mos · New York, New York, United States · Hybrid

Led project to build microservice platform in AWS ECS for commercial bank to rebuild commercial banking portal and backend systems
Configured and managed ELK stack for platform logging, Consul for service discovery, Jaeger for opentracing and Datadog for monitoring and alerting
Built CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins for platform testing and deployments

JavaScriptDevOpsAgile MethodologiesSecure Shell (SSH)JenkinsRedux.js+13

Blue apron

Senior Engineering Manager

Jul 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

Led development and deployment of internal PaaS using AWS, Docker, Jenkins and Chef
Led migration of cloud infrastructure from Heroku to AWS saving $150k per month

Agile MethodologiesSecure Shell (SSH)JenkinsHerokuRuby on RailsTerraform+12

Bam-x

Engineering Manager

Feb 2015 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

Led development of new, interactive customer experience to design and deploy their own product carousels
Led evolution of agile development processes to optimize workflow for the team

JavaScriptPerformance ManagementAgile MethodologiesJenkinsSQLMentoring+7

Payperks, part of the smi family

Software Engineer

Dec 2013 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

Developed debit card rewards programing using Python and Django
Integrated back-end systems with third parties through SOAP and HTTP protocols
Facilitated success PCI compliance audit

JavaScriptAgile MethodologiesSQLDjangoPython (Programming Language)Git+2

Signal data corporation

Software Engineer

Feb 2013 – Nov 2013 · 9 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

Built front-end, map-based interactions in Angular, including complex widgets like multi-calendar pickers
Built complex ETL processes in Python
Managed MongoDB cluster, including schemas and indexes

JavaScriptAgile MethodologiesMongoDBAngularJSSQLPython (Programming Language)+3