Damilola Elegbede
Engineering Manager
I build engineering organizations that deliver results, retain top talent, and develop leaders
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Experience
Verily Life Sciences
Engineering Manager - Cloud Infrastructure & Developer Experience
Sep 2022 - Nov 2024 • Boulder, 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 2022 • Boulder, 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 2019 • Boulder, 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
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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.
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.
Personal Website for Damilola Elegbede
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Personal portfolio with an AI chatbot that answers recruiter questions about experience, skills, and role fit using Claude with full context.
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.
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.
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