Senior Engineering Manager: March 2025 -
Team Lead on the Infrastructure team for Minnesota Paid Leave
People manager for 7 direct reports across two teams.
Responsible for coaching, performance management, mentoring and career health advice for direct reports.
Active in hiring process improvements and company-wide LMS training reviews.
Own the technical roadmap and architecture decisions for the team.
Represent the Infrastructure team when prioritizing work and gathering requirements with the client and product teams.
Drive cost optimization initiatives and implement budget alerting.
Lead and set expectations for Infrastructure on-call rotation and incident response.
Migrated feature flag management to Flipper with zero downtime.
Architected and deployed self-hosted Temporal infrastructure with Entra SSO, using ECS with Service Connect.
Deployed MVP Temporal solutions to unblock teams during development, then scaled to full production launch.
Implemented Datadog monitors, SLOs, synthetics, and dashboards across the project in Terraform.
Developed core tooling for database user/permission management across multiple apps and databases.
Led infrastructure launch and deployment coordination for production releases.
Enhanced CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions to automatically deploy applications upon merge.
Drove system security plan approvals and architectural changes for compliance.
Ran a security tabletop exercise with State leadership and 30+ cross-department stakeholders.
Technologies Used: Temporal, ECS, Docker, Terraform, ALB, S3, Python, Rails, Datadog, Security Hub, Github Actions.