Looking for a job

Lucus Lally

@lucuslally

Message

I lead engineering organizations that scale SaaS platforms, teams, and delivery velocity.

United States

Message

What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead engineering strategy, scale high-performing teams and cloud-native platforms, improve delivery through agile and CI/CD practices, and partner with executives to connect technical roadmaps to business growth.

I've led engineering organizations at Whitepages, Gooten, and Sinclair Digital, scaling SaaS and cloud-native platforms while building teams of 20 to 50+ engineers.

At Whitepages, I established agile practices across five cross-functional teams, increasing team velocity by 40%. I also improved search troubleshooting by 40%, reduced incident downtime by about 30%, and helped launch two revenue-generating products.

As CTO at Gooten, I grew the technology organization from 13 to 51 people across three time zones and increased delivery cadence from monthly to daily. I scaled the order management system as revenue grew from $9M to $45M, led a cloud microservices migration, and launched a real-time analytics platform.

Earlier at Sinclair Digital, I led productivity engineering and QA organizations, improving feature development speed, automated test coverage, release predictability, and deployment efficiency. I bring a practical focus on technical strategy, operational excellence, career development, and alignment between engineering and business goals.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Head of Engineering, Operations

Current

Whitepages

Mar 2022 - Present (4 years 6 months)

Established a new agile framework across 5 cross-functional teams, leading to a 40% increase in team velocity. Implemented telemetry and logging dashboards for search traffic, reducing mean time to troubleshoot production search defects by 40%.

Agile ELK Prometheus Incident Management Cloud Infrastructure Mentorship Career Development

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Gooten

Feb 2020 - Mar 2022 (2 years 1 month)

Scaled engineering from 13 to 51 cross-functional technology staff across three time zones, increasing delivery cadence from monthly to daily. Systematically scaled the legacy order management system, increasing business revenue from $9MM to $45MM.

Engineering Management Scaling OKRs Data Analysis Microservices Elasticsearch Data Privacy Security Vendor Management Corporate Trainer API Integration Disaster Recovery

Director of Productivity Engineering

Sinclair Digital

Apr 2019 - Feb 2020 (10 months)

Spearheaded a department of 45 within the digital organization, implementing a vision for self-service horizontal platform teams. Led process improvement experts to streamline dependency workflows, increasing feature development speed by 15%.

Engineering Management Process Improvement Web Performance SPA Agile Delivery Management

Senior QA Manager

Sinclair Digital

Jan 2018 - Apr 2019 (1 year 3 months)

Managed 25+ QA engineers across 10 products in a fast-paced Agile/Scrum environment. Implemented comprehensive quality standards for frontend, backend, mobile, and OTT devices, reducing escaped defects to production.

QA Management Agile Scrum Testing Automation OTT Mobile Testing Training

QA Manager / Release Manager

Sinclair Digital

Sep 2016 - Jan 2018 (1 year 4 months)

Implemented a robust agile release planning and CI/CD process, reducing release delays by 20%. Developed comprehensive release playbooks and a release dashboard with real-time metrics.

Release Management CI CD Agile DevOps Risk Based Testing Dashboarding