Reese W.
Head Of Engineering
reese.w@email.com | (555) 000-0000 | San Francisco
Professional Summary
Engineering leader with 10 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems. Deep expertise in AWS and Azure infrastructure, DevOps automation, and cross-functional collaboration. Currently managing a 40-person engineering organisation at Keyrock with a focus on compliance, reliability, and velocity.
Skills
  • React
  • Leadership
  • Typescript
  • Marketing
  • Postgresql
  • Communication
  • AWS
  • Agile
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Ci/Cd
  • DevOps
  • Distributed Systems
Experience
Head Of Engineering — Keyrock
London | Jan 2021 – Present
  • Positioned Keyrock as the first crypto exchange to achieve FCA compliance by designing and implementing security frameworks.
  • Increased deployment frequency from bi-weekly to daily by embedding DevOps practices across engineering teams.
  • Recruited and developed a diverse 40-person engineering organisation spanning data, security, and product delivery.
  • Drove incident response improvements that reduced mean time to recovery 60% through blameless postmortems.
  • Managed a £6M engineering budget while optimising cloud spend via cost transparency dashboards.
Engineering Manager — Go Laddu
Bengaluru | Jan 2018 – Dec 2021
  • Transitioned Go Laddu's marketplace infrastructure to microservices, improving latency SLAs by 40%.
  • Established a site reliability function that reduced production incident volume 70% year-over-year.
  • Mentored engineers through promotion cycles, increasing overall team tenure by 50%.
  • Partnered with product leadership to launch six new marketplace verticals on schedule and on budget.
  • Implemented chaos engineering experiments that surfaced hidden dependencies and failure modes.
Head Of Engineering — Antal International
Bengaluru | Jan 2015 – Dec 2018
  • Redesigned Antal's recruitment platform architecture, reducing candidate drop-off rates by 30%.
  • Implemented agile delivery practices that improved feature cycle time from 12 weeks to 6.
  • Coached engineering and product teams on data-informed decision making using analytics dashboards.
  • Managed vendor relationships with AWS and Azure to optimise cloud spending and compliance.
  • Launched a developer onboarding programme that decreased ramp time for new hires by 40%.
Education
B.S. Civil Engineering
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON | Graduated 2011
Certifications
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect
  • Certified ScrumMaster
Languages
English, Hindi