My ideal role is one where I can strategically align and drive my team towards business goals, coach and mentor my direct reports to grow their skills and potential and release high-quality, iterative, and valuable products and features for our customers.
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Bradley Stillwagon
@bradleystillwagon
Customer-focused Engineering Manager with a strong background in quality and process in startups.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I am a results-driven software engineering professional with over eight years of startup experience. I excel at tackling complex problems and distilling ambiguous problems into simple solutions. As an engineering manager at Series Financial, I find joy in the challenge of building a modular, automated financial back office suite. I am most fulfilled when empowering my team to tackle the next challenge.
My management philosophy focuses on establishing clear direction and expectations with my direct reports, enabling them to have the freedom and flexibility to innovate, even if it doesn't always work. I believe that feedback is a gift and that direct feedback establishes trust and clear communication patterns between all members of the team. I strive to iterate as quickly as possible, with a streamlined feedback loop in our CI/CD process. I believe that failure is not something to be scared of, as it only guides improvement.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
PACurrent
Software Engineering Manager
PayIt
Apr 2024 - Present (1 year 3 months)
Manage twenty engineers across four cross-functional teams to build a configurable platform supporting over $30 million in annual revenue.
Design system architecture to securely scale and blend single and multi-tenant systems.
Optimized work breakdown and team process to increase commitment accuracy and average velocity each quarter.
SFEngineering Manager
Series Financial
May 2022 - Mar 2024 (1 year 10 months)
Led cross-functional engineering teams to develop critical services, enabling the movement of over $2.5 billion.
Managed the migration to AWS, including VPC peering, API Gateway, and Lambda implementations.
Directed the zero-to-one development and release of two products.
Partnered with product managers to integrate vendors into our product suite, including BaaS providers and billing vendors.
RF
Lead Software Engineer
RFP360
Mar 2019 - May 2022 (3 years 2 months)
Developed full-stack JavaScript web application along with data migrations.
Integrated automated testing into our CI/CD process to reduce bugs released and manual testing by 60%.
Led biweekly knowledge-sharing sessions with engineers and mentored two quality engineers.
MY
Software Engineer
Mylo
Jun 2016 - Mar 2019 (2 years 9 months)
Coded and tested full-stack JavaScript micro-services while optimizing code releases for continuous delivery.
Developed and integrated hiring strategies to promote an inclusive organizational culture.
Designed and enforced a continuous testing Selenium framework for real-time website monitoring.
SI
Software Developer II
Shelter Insurance
Jun 2014 - Jun 2016 (2 years)
Built a Java Spring Boot application to replace a core COBOL mainframe for financial processing.
Facilitated the transition from waterfall development to Agile Scrum development.
Established Agile QA department and led a team of five engineers to institute a Selenium-based testing framework.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
SUSouthwest Baptist University
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics
2010 - 2014
Availability
Looking for a job
Location
United StatesAuthorized to work in
Salary expectations
180k-240k USD
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