RJ Beers

VP of Engineering

Senior Director, Technical Services

• Defined and drove a new technical strategy for upmarket sales bookings in NA and EMEA
• Founded Customer Success organization and reduced churn by 35% quarter over quarter
• Launched a top tier support program for our largest customers resulting in improved CSAT QoQ

Director of Engineering, Platform

• Responsible for Netlify's core platform offering used by 4 million developers and businesses
• Drove financial operations across engineering in partnership with finance to significantly improve profit margin and enable teams to more effectively manage budgets and vendor relationships to accomplish their goals
• Defined group wide objectives and key results that align to company goals and direct the product and engineering roadmap
• Collaborated with peer directors to define, communicate, and rollout a scalable engineering organizational structure
• Hired and supported multiple managers in order to continue scaling the engineering organization
• Supported strategic sales through executive engagement and solutions architecture

Senior Software Engineering Manager, CDN and Runtime

• Guided multiple teams through periods of uncertainty during a gap in engineering leadership
• Acted as Frontend guild liaison to the management team for consistency and coordination
• Drove business proposals for additional scrum team and process improvements

Software Engineering Manager, CDN

• Iteratively shipped an innovative Content Delivery Network that evolves the Jamstack
• Increased the visibility into critical project timelines and challenges
• Collaborated with Product Management and senior leadership on vision and strategy
• Defined recruiting practices for diverse and scalable backend engineering hiring

Senior Software Engineering Manager, Application Platform

• Managed 2 scrum teams influencing greater Oracle web technology strategy
• Coordinated short, medium, and long term deliverables with the Director of Product Management
• Led organization’s evolution of ingress routing, load balancing, and service discovery
• Active member of organization wide UI/UX Architecture and Cloud Native Architecture teams
• Reduced implementation and setup costs by 50% (reduction continues)

Software Engineering Manager, Web Platform

• Responsible for roadmap and scrum activities for 12 engineers and 1 Engineering Manager
• Delivered a NodeJS/React based SaaS web platform including a CI/CD pipeline
• Directly contributed to a NodeJS, React, Chef, and Docker codebase
• Responsible for the future architecture of current Ruby on Rails based tools
• Experienced as a remote based manager with direct reports in the United States and Ukraine
• Organized monthly manager and technical lead gatherings for information and feedback sharing
• Responsible for hiring and growing backend, web-focused engineers

Implementation Engineering Manager, Web

• Managed a team of three engineers customizing a NodeJS and AngularJS based web platform
• Contributed heavily to cross functional team planning of web platform use cases and future roadmap
• Managed delivery of 6-10 concurrent website implementations and triaged escalated blockers

Implementation Engineer 3

• Delivered customized AngularJS based web applications for clients backed by a NodeJS based server
• Designed many web site integrations, proposed to clients, and implemented with success using HTML/SCSS/JavaScript to seamlessly join multiple content providers into unified sites
• Internal and client facing subject matter expert on SAML based Single Sign On integrations
• Defined Beta and GA product operational requirements for Opower's newest web products and platform

Implementation Engineer 2

• Led data acquisition efforts with third party IT teams, to create automated data feeds into enterprise data stores including MySQL and Hadoop
• Drove web product improvement through collaboration with agile product scrum teams
• Developed robust tooling while improving processes, increasing employee efficiency, and reducing error
• Specialized in international client implementations

Senior Consultant

• Lead developer for a centralized enterprise authentication and authorization system
• Forked an open source (C based) project to fit a government agency's needs, saving licensing costs
• Developed system enhancements and defect solutions using Java (JSP, EJB, Struts) and PL/SQL
• Successfully managed responsibilities and schedules with multiple concurrent projects and managers
• Primary author for new user story requirements and detailed design documentation

Consultant

• Acted as lead Java developer and agile Scrum Master for an enterprise web application using Spring MVC, JSP, EJB, JavaScript (Ext JS), and SCSS
• Led testing efforts from unit testing through user acceptance testing with clients and 3rd party contractors
• Designed and developed over 150 XML based test files for a backend data validation service

Johns Hopkins University

GPA 4.00

EC-Council