Summary

Engineering manager with 10+ years of experience scaling teams and systems. Grew platform engineering team from 4 to 18 engineers. Drove SOC 2 compliance, reduced incident response time by 70%, and shipped the company's first enterprise product line.

Experience

Engineering Manager2021 – Present

FinTech Corp

Grew platform engineering team from 4 to 18 engineers across 3 offices
Drove SOC 2 Type II compliance, enabling $12M enterprise contract pipeline
Reduced mean incident response time from 45 min to 12 min through on-call restructuring
Shipped enterprise product line generating $4.2M ARR in first year

Senior Software Engineer2017 – 2021

PayCore

Led architecture of payments reconciliation system processing $2B+ monthly
Designed rate-limiting infrastructure handling 100K+ API calls per second
Mentored 8 junior engineers, with 5 promoted within 2 years

Software Engineer2014 – 2017

BluePath

Built distributed storage system for BluePath Cloud, serving 10K+ enterprise customers
Contributed to open-source Kubernetes networking plugins with 2K+ GitHub stars

Skills

Team LeadershipSystem DesignAgileAWSJavaNode.jsCI/CDIncident ManagementOKRsMentoring

Education

M.S. Software Engineering

Georgia Tech · 2014

B.S. Computer Engineering

University of Lagos · 2012

James Okonkwo

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