Proven experience in leadership in Software development: leading development teams (from 4 to 15+ people in 4 different locations) while staying hands-on and continuing coding, mainly on back end services managing remote contractor teams mentoring individuals to help them grow their skills both technical and human designing and building back end architecture of highly available high volume systems using known frameworks and best practices implementing and managing of the life cycle of said system from design to production prototyping future features or future architectural refactoring improving team efficiency by using Agile methodologies (Scrum and Lean) working closely with other teams (Professional Services and Operations) to advocate their point of view to the Engineering organization integrating different Enterprise platforms (ERPs, CRMs, IVRs...) using APIs (documented or not) or reverse engineering ©