Kyle Olson — Software Engineering Manager

Hello! My name is Kyle, and I’m a creative web professional living in San Francisco, California.

Skills

Managing software engineers — remotely, in-person, and internationally
Team building expertise — hiring, evaluating, mentoring and growing engineers
Designing, executing on, and adapting processes
Planning and strategy for engineering teams and technologies
Leadership and the fine art of delegation
Technical expertise in web technologies
Creative problem-solving — with a focus on long-term success, pragmatism, and cross-functional impact
Designing and implementing automated workflows — Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
Full-stack Node.js development and Progressive Web Apps
API architecture and stateless server design
Authoring build systems, developer tooling, and local development servers
Working with ambiguity, anticipating and pivoting quickly to new requirements
Clearly communicating technical issues to non-technical people
Quick to learn new tools, programming languages, and frameworks
SEO and Social Media impact and best-practices for web sites
Accessibility and User Experience
Design and polish — eye for details

Managing a small team of senior engineers focused on automation and infrastructure for development, testing, qualification, project management, and release of software
Designing and implementing workflows for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
Integrating tools and workflows across dozens of engineering teams, supporting over a hundred apps, both internal and customer-facing
Responsible for technical leadership on tools, frameworks, service reliability, software and API architecture, and general web development
Architecting extensible build system that promoted code quality through review and automated testing
Working cross-functionally to design request flow from CDN to server instance, and every step in between

Mentored large teams of exceptional, design-oriented engineers
Anticipated the trajectory of creative direction across projects; architected frameworks enabling our teams to achieve these creative concepts
Technical leadership — responsible for identifying long-term priorities of the engineering teams and advocating cross-functionally for these priorities
Project lead for product launch sites; balanced engineers’ workloads, established and communicated project timelines and status, directly-responsible for the end-product
Represented engineering in executive reviews; presented prototypes and advised on technical feasibility
Conceptualized and prototyped interactions and animations
Executed these complex and innovative interactions and animations for the end-product
Established a build system that integrated our bespoke web development process with our localization system — helping centralize world-wide development

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