Lesley Boyd

I didn't start out in tech. I spent years in supply chain and operations roles, first at Frito-Lay doing distribution work, then at Bridgestone, where I ended up as a SAP Solution Analyst and Salesforce Administrator. That's really where I found my footing: I liked being the person who could see how a broken process actually worked (or didn't), and who could fix it.

In 2018, I went through Nashville Software School's full stack program and made the jump into tech proper. I landed at Accenture as a Salesforce consultant, including work on a federal government project, then moved to Blackthorn, an event management and payment processing platform built for the Salesforce ecosystem, where I've spent the last five-plus years. I started as a QA Engineer, moved into QA Lead, and now run engineering operations: Jira and Confluence administration, keeping the team's rhythm on track, cross-team coordination, the stuff that keeps a dev org actually functioning day to day.

So I've got a pretty unusual mix: deep operational and QA experience, hands-on Jira/Confluence administration, Salesforce ecosystem fluency, and a track record of being the glue between engineering and everyone else.

Outside of work I'm usually in the yard building out a pollinator garden, or wrangling my four cats (yes, four). I'm looking for my next role at a company whose mission I can actually get behind. Animal welfare, the outdoors, or climate work would be a dream fit.