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Niloufar MP

@niloufarmp

Engineering leader who builds self-functioning teams and shipping cultures through trust, transparency, and strong foundations.

Canada

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead engineering teams that become self-functioning—where people feel trusted, own outcomes, and ship with strong technical foundations. I want a role focused on sustainable processes, psychological safety, and continuous improvement through meaningful execution.

I deeply care about people, and I believe building sustainable processes and technical foundations makes everyone’s work life easier and fosters growth and a healthy team dynamic. I’m an engineering leader with about six years leading engineering teams, focused on creating cultures where people feel trusted and take real ownership.

I’ve led teams through significant organizational change while shipping meaningful technical improvements—like moving from bi-weekly releases to continuous delivery—and I’m especially proud of teams that became “self-functioning.” From building foundational infrastructure automation (CI/CD, engineering tooling, and AI guardrails) to guiding microservices growth with Python and Django, I’ve consistently driven high-trust collaboration across hybrid and remote teams while mentoring engineers and developing engineering managers.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Current

Lantern

Aug 2025 - Present (8 months)

Led efforts to eliminate onboarding overhead by empowering a senior engineer to build a cookiecutter Team Culture tool that automates foundational infrastructure (including CI/CD, local containerization, and AI guardrails), enabling a new service in under two minutes. Mentored engineers and supported Python microservices adoption within a legacy C# environment while building a trust-driven Vancouv

Engineering Leadership Organizational Change CI CD Microservices C# Legacy Systems Terraform Docker Engineering Culture Stakeholder Management

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Accolade

May 2024 - Aug 2025 (1 year 3 months)

Led a team of 6–9 engineers through significant organizational change while keeping delivery stable and team morale high. Drove continuous delivery by transitioning from bi-weekly releases, and built a self-functioning team where engineers owned service infrastructure (including Terraform) and co-developed QA strategies to distribute testing responsibility.

Engineering Management Organizational Change Continuous Delivery Microservices Architecture Terraform CI CD Docker AWS

Software Engineering Manager

Accolade

Jan 2022 - May 2024 (2 years 4 months)

Directed engineering team restructuring into specialized units and ensured continuity and cohesion during the transition. Established foundational team processes, led performance reviews with goal check-ins every 6–8 weeks, and partnered with engineers on scalable service ownership and cross-company reuse.

Engineering Leadership Performance Reviews Interim Product Ownership Scalability System Architecture Stakeholder Management Coaching

Senior Software Engineer & Scrum Master

Accolade

Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 (1 year)

Contributed to backend development in Python and Django, focusing on solution design, code reviews, and consistent project delivery. Served as Scrum Master, running sprint planning, grooming, and retrospectives while using 1:1s and feedback loops to support the team’s continuous improvement.

Python Django Code Review Solution Design Scrum Master Sprint Planning Backlog Grooming Sprint Retrospectives Agile Delivery Mentorship

Technical Lead

Trip Ninja

Aug 2019 - Dec 2020 (1 year 4 months)

Led the development team and implemented Agile practices tailored to team needs while mentoring engineers toward advanced architecture and design. Designed cloud-hosted AWS product architecture for reliability and scalability (Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, RDS, VPC), owned sprint planning and cross-team coordination, and reported directly to the CEO.

Engineering Leadership Agile Delivery Cloud Architecture Elastic Beanstalk EC2 RDS VPC API Integration Performance Optimization Sprint Planning

Senior Software Developer

Trip Ninja

Nov 2018 - Aug 2019 (9 months)

Designed and implemented RESTful backend services in Python using a microservice architecture. Built and maintained AWS infrastructure (VPC, Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, RDS, ElastiCache), integrated CI/CD and code quality tooling, and mentored junior engineers with peer code reviews.

Python RESTful Services Microservices Architecture VPC AWS Elastic Beanstalk AWS EC2 AWS RDS Elasticache CI CD

Software Developer

Peykasa Messageware

Sep 2013 - Aug 2018 (4 years 11 months)

Architected and developed high-scale systems handling up to 5,000 transactions per second. Worked across the backend stack with Java/J2EE, Spring, Python, RabbitMQ, Oracle, MySQL, and Elasticsearch.