Software Engineering Lead

Adam Teller

New York City Metropolitan Area 917-***-**** ****.******@*****.***

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Software Engineering Lead

Software Engineering Lead with 6 years of experience leading and coordinating development activities to deliver high quality software. Collaborate cross-functionally with several teams, including Product and QA. Manage, mentor, and grow engineering teams of sizes 5 to 7. Work with onsite and offshore teams. Core Competencies

Encourage innovation, continuous improvement, collaboration, ownership, respect, and accountability Partner with Product Team to define the roadmap Drive solutions aligned with business needs Balance leadership and technical problem solving Optimize Resource costs Write and review code and documentation Monitor and evaluate efficiency of processes Remove blockers to team success Professional Experience

McGraw Hill New York, NY 08/2019 - 10/2024

Software Development Manager

• Managed engineering teams of up to 7 members across diverse locations and time zones.

• Fostered a culture of self-organization among engineers, resulting in improved visibility on Jira ticket statuses and a 35% reduction in project lead times across development cycles.

• Strengthened connections between engineering teams and stakeholders which resolved two productivity concerns identified in previous iterations of the application.

• Led scoping efforts among three stakeholders while developing an assessment platform, clarifying technical requirements which enhanced project alignment across teams.

• Planned and executed software deployments, increased autonomy and agency by roughly 80%.

• Enhanced test plans for new product features with the Quality Assurance (QA) team, resulting in a 10% decrease in post-launch defects and ensuring smoother rollouts.

• Constructed a database driven application in Apache Airflow using MySQL and Python 3.

• Improved readability, code quality, and maintainability for 3 code bases.

• Created workflows with GitHub actions to reduce non-prod AWS EC2 usage costs by 50%.

• Spearheaded PHPUnit version upgrade and remediation reducing run time requirements for 1,600+ unit tests by 83%.

Macmillan Learning New York, NY 11/2014 - 08/2019 Senior Software Developer

• Built a RESTful API with PHP and reduced application redundancy by approximately 60%.

• Implemented automated Test-driven Development with PHPUnit and POSTMAN that resulted in a streamlined and high-confidence deployment strategy.

• Maintained code bases and optimized SQL queries for 2 legacy applications.

• Mentored one Junior Developer for best PHP coding practices.

• Managed deliverables and schedule on an AWS EC2 based project by an offshore Dev team. Pica9 New York, NY 07/2013 - 11/2014

PHP-JavaScript Developer

• Developed customer facing SAAS applications. Assisted with on-boarding of new Developers to the team. Advocated best practices and on-time delivery of new Product features.

• Wrote web applications in PHP, Zend Framework 1.12, jQuery, and PostgreSQL.

• Consolidated QA processes through PHPUnit tests, leading to reduced manual testing efforts and increasing overall team productivity by an estimated 25%. Lightower Fiber Networks New York, NY 12/2011 - 07/2013 PHP-JavaScript Developer

• Expanded the capabilities of the Order Provisioning system on a SugarCRM platform. Wrote automated web browser test cases with Selenium. Upgraded front end forms with jQuery. Additional Experience

Gold Group Enterprises Clark, NJ

Web Developer and Client Services Team Lead

Village Voice Media New York, NY

Web Developer and Web Project Manager

Education

Bachelor of Science (BS) Degree, Computer Information Systems DeVry University, New Brunswick, NJ

Technical Skills and Proficiencies

Python MySQL Postgres Jira Java Docker Kubernetes PHP JavaScript Agile Methodologies in the Software Development Life Cycle Test-Driven Development Node.js Automated Testing and Deployment CI/CD Pipelines GitHub Actions AWS Cloud Deployment, Security, and Cost Optimization RESTful API MySQL and Postgres Databases Datadog Monitoring tools

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