Damilola Elegbede
Sr. Engineering Manager
I build engineering organizations that deliver results, retain top talent, and develop leaders
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Experience
Visa
Sr. Manager, DX - Developer Tools Engineering
Apr 2026 - Present • Boulder, CO
- ›Leading Developer Experience and Developer Tools Engineering at Visa, accountable for the platforms and tooling that shape engineering velocity across the company's product organizations.
- ›Driving strategic investments in build infrastructure, CI/CD, and self-service developer platforms to improve cycle time, reliability, and engineering productivity at Visa's scale.
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 (GCP/AWS) capabilities.
- ›Built Cloud Infrastructure and developer experience functions from ground up, hiring and scaling an engineering team across multiple requisition cycles; promoted 3 ICs to senior roles, achieved high team retention with multiple internal transfers to the organization.
- ›Drove platform efficiency initiatives with significant CI efficiency improvement and establishing self-service infrastructure capabilities, improving developer velocity across a large engineering organization.
Qualcomm Technologies
Engineer, Senior Staff/Manager
Oct 2019 - Jul 2022 • Boulder, CO
- ›Transformed customer support operations from reactive to proactive model, dramatically reducing critical issue resolution time while scaling to support a large global customer deployment base.
- ›Created self-service 5G training platform replacing quarterly live sessions, enabling 24/7 customer enablement across global time zones and significantly reducing training operational costs.
- ›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.
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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
BareClaude Agent Fleet
Multi-agent AI system with autonomous task orchestration
BareClaude is D's personal agentic OS — 3 autonomous principals running 24/7 on a Mac Mini. Clara Nova handles life ops, calendar, and finances. Dara Fox owns the full engineering stack (security, testing, infra, product). TARS serves as D's spouse's personal assistant. Powered by Bun fleet workers, launchd, Linear, GitHub Apps, Slack webhooks, Tailscale, and the Claude API.
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
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.
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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