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Currently available - Open to Engineering Manager, Senior Engineering Manager, Director of Engineering

Damilola Elegbede

Engineering Manager

I build engineering organizations that deliver results, retain top talent, and develop leaders

Engineering ManagementTeam LeadershipCross-functional LeadershipStrategic PlanningStakeholder ManagementPeople ManagementMBA + MS CS

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Experience

Verily Life Sciences

Engineering Manager - Cloud Infrastructure & Developer Experience

Sep 2022 - Nov 2024Boulder, CO

  • Architected and executed enterprise-wide GCP cloud transformation supporting 30+ production systems, enabling successful launches of L'Oréal LDP and T1D healthcare platforms while establishing multi-cloud (AWS/GCP) capabilities.
  • Built Cloud Infrastructure and developer experience functions from ground up, hiring and scaling to 13 engineers across 4 req cycles; promoted 3 ICs to senior roles, achieved 93% retention with multiple internal transfers to my org.
  • Drove platform efficiency initiatives reducing GitHub Actions usage by 30% and establishing self-service infrastructure capabilities, improving developer velocity across 400+ engineers.

Qualcomm Technologies

Engineer, Senior Staff/Manager

Oct 2019 - Jul 2022Boulder, CO

  • Transformed customer support operations from reactive to proactive model, reducing critical issue resolution time by 75% while scaling to support 400+ customer deployments globally.
  • Created self-service 5G training platform replacing quarterly live sessions, enabling 24/7 customer enablement across global time zones and reducing training operational costs by 60%.
  • Led data-driven performance optimization using Splunk analytics, identifying and resolving signal-to-noise ratio issues across 40+ customer sites, directly improving chipset performance metrics.

Qualcomm Technologies

Engineer, Staff/Manager

Oct 2014 - Oct 2019Boulder, CO

  • Delivered 6 major 4G feature releases annually while maintaining 99.9% platform stability, directly supporting Qualcomm's telecom infrastructure revenue stream.
  • Implemented CI/CD transformation reducing build times by 87% (4 hours to 30 minutes), improving productivity for 100+ engineers and accelerating feature delivery.
  • Led Agile transformation achieving 40% productivity improvement, implementing Scrum for development teams and Kanban for customer support operations.

Skills Assessment

Expert

Expert: Cross-Functional LeadershipExpert: Technical StrategyExpert: Executive Stakeholder ManagementExpert: Multi-Site Team LeadershipExpert: Agile/Scrum/KanbanExpert: Organizational TransformationExpert: CI/CD Pipeline DesignExpert: JenkinsExpert: Incident ManagementExpert: Mentoring/CoachingExpert: Training Development

Proficient

Proficient: GCPProficient: Kubernetes/GKEProficient: TerraformProficient: Platform EngineeringProficient: Distributed SystemsProficient: SRE PrinciplesProficient: Telecom Systems (5G/4G/3G)Proficient: PythonProficient: 3GPP StandardsProficient: RRC/L3 LayerProficient: FHIRProficient: gRPCProficient: Cloud RunProficient: BigQueryProficient: OpenTelemetryProficient: WebSocketsProficient: JWTProficient: Knowledge Transfer

Familiar

Familiar: AWSFamiliar: SQLFamiliar: YAMLFamiliar: JavaScript/TypeScriptFamiliar: ArgoCDFamiliar: AtlantisFamiliar: SkaffoldFamiliar: Cloud Deploy

Education

MBA

University of Colorado, Leeds School of Business

MS Computer Science

University of Colorado Boulder

BS Electrical & Computer Engineering / Computer Science

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Projects

Cortex Agent Fleet

Multi-agent AI system with autonomous task orchestration

Production multi-agent platform running 2 specialized AI agents on a Mac Mini with centralized orchestration. Features inter-agent communication, automated SDLC with sub-agent delegation, config drift detection, incident monitoring, and a Signal-based command interface.

TypeScriptNext.jsNode.jsOpenClawClaude APIOpenAI CodexlaunchdTailscale
GitHubActivity

A Lo Cubano Boulder Fest

Full-stack event management platform for Latin dance festivals

Complete ticketing and event management system built from scratch to handle multi-tier pricing, payment processing, and attendee check-in.

JavaScriptNode.jsVercelStripeBrevoTurso
Live SiteGitHub

Personal Website for Damilola Elegbede

This site — AI-powered career landing page

Personal portfolio with an AI chatbot that answers recruiter questions about experience, skills, and role fit using Claude with full context.

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSClaude APIVercel
Live SiteGitHub

Pipedream Automation Suite

AI-powered productivity automation with bidirectional sync

10 production workflows with custom CI/CD pipeline (1,634 LOC) solving Pipedream's missing deployment API. AI-powered task prioritization using Claude Opus 4.5.

PythonPlaywrightClaude APINotion APIGmail APIPipedream
GitHub

Claude Configuration System

Enterprise-grade AI assistant customization framework

Production AI orchestration framework: 12 agents (consolidated from 31) achieving 4-6x performance through multi-instance parallelization.

YAMLMarkdownPythonShellClaude CodeGitHub Actions
GitHub

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