About

Leader/Mentor/Dev - APJ Region Lead - Technical Delivery Manager of Software Engineering

Senior leader and mentor. My main mission is to make big impact. Driven to help build up leaders, engineers, and great services.

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Summary

Highly accomplished Engineering Leader with 16+ years of experience driving vision, strategy, and operational excellence in large-scale cloud infrastructure and services. Proven track record in setting business strategies, ensuring security and compliance, and fostering growth for engineering teams. Extensive experience at Appian, from Cloud Engineer to Technical Delivery Manager and APJ Regional Lead, demonstrates deep expertise in cloud platform development and operations.

Key Skills

Strategic Vision and Leadership: Over 16 years of experience in defining vision and strategy for cloud infrastructure to grow Appian Cloud from self-managed on RackSpace to fully integrated and Cloud Native within AWS. Successfully set strategic goals to align Appian Cloud with connectivity and integration offerings, securing executive leadership alignment.
Operational Excellence: Drive operational excellence, apply security and regulatory compliance practices, and assure strategic and tactical successes. Lead efforts to unify capacity and incident tracking metrics across Engineering SBUs for executive leadership.
Team Management and Development: People Manager for multiple Software Engineers, conducting performance evaluations, goal setting, and career mentorship. Hiring manager for APJ Appian Engineering teams (Managers and Engineers). Championed initiatives to improve communication and onboarding resources for new hires across the organization. Created ‘Emerging Leaders’ and ‘Appian MBA’ programs for leadership development across the organization.
Technical Expertise and Innovation: Deep knowledge of Appian Low Code Platform and its backing Cloud Native automations. Expertise in various current technologies and tools, including: AWS, GCP, Java, Python, Golang, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and Cloud First implementations. Led efforts for significant technical migrations and implementations impacting Appian Cloud’s entire customer base, such as the CentOS7 to AL2 migration, saving Appian an estimated ~$110,000 USD per month (~$6.8 million USD over 5 years).
Cross-Organizational Collaboration: Consistently drive decisions and outcomes involving cross-organizational initiatives, aligning technical roadmaps to business goals. Championed improvements in cross-Engineering and Support organization communications leading to more swift engagement of Appian Engineering resources to customer incidents and lowering MttR (Mean time to Remediation) metrics across the organization.
Regional Leadership: Serve as APJ Regional Leader for AppianRISE and AppianAbility groups, demonstrating leadership in professional development and inclusivity initiatives.