Jeremy Likes
Transformational Technology Leader
Summary
A software engineering and quality leader since 2018, I’ve built three teams from scratch, led over 50+ engineers and two people leaders, and localized seven products in over 12 countries. I’m in search of a long-term career which challenges me to improve my technical acumen and proven brand of people-first leadership.
Experience
ARCOS - Engineering Manager
06-2022 - 04-2023
- Moved on-prem monolithic software to SaaS-oriented solution leveraging Java / Kotlin, PostgreSQL, and Spring Boot, generating millions of dollars of recurring revenue
- Moved four engineering teams from scrum to kanban, increasing productivity / commits and decreasing change fail percentage and mean-time-to-restore
- Implemented “quality first” strategies which identified hundreds of bugs during pre-production
Ibotta - Engineering Manager
08-2021 - 06-2021
- Moved dozens of tightly coupled modules out of a Java / Kotlin monolith into a services gateway powered by AWS - Lambda, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, and DynamoDB
- Reduced traffic going into monolith, raising its overall performance
- Raised eNPS scores on my team
Alteryx - Engineering Manager
05-2019 - 08-2021
- Used C#, C++, node.js, React, Artifactory, Gitlab, and Percona SQL to build service catalogs and custom localization tech for 15 internal engineering teams and our external TMS
- Procured millions of dollars of investment to hire engineers
- Resolved a backlog of over 300 localization defects
- Localized and launched full product line in eight languages, across 10 countries
Alteryx - QA Manager
10-2018 - 05-2021
- Built / led a team of six automation engineers
- Built test suites in vanilla javascript, Cypress and Test Cafe
- Led organization through a transformation into “quality first” engineering
Alteryx - QA Lead - Localiazation
06-2017 - 10-2018
- Led / Built a team of seven linguistic testers responsible for localizing our products in Japan, France, Germany, Italy, and Latin America
- Reduced translation times by over 50% by authoring tools in C# and Python
Alteryx - Automation Engineer
08-2016 - 06-2017
- Wrote test automation and reporting infrastructure in Ruby, Jenkins, Javascript, and Python
- Created automation tools which significantly reduced manual, repetitive tasks for QA and dev
Alteryx - Quality Engineer
08-2016 - 06-2017
- Author and manage automated test suites in C# / NUnit
Ricoh - Lead QA - Japanese Localization
08-2014 - 08-2015
- Ensure multibyte characters are correctly handled among firmware, software, embedded systems for commercial imaging and printing devices
Encompass Technologies - QA Engineer
07-2012 - 01-2014
- PM - Perform and manage on-site installations of software / hardware
- QA - Log and track defects
- Tech Support - Resolve issues for customers
Hewlett Packard (HP) - Account Manager
12-2002 - 04-2005
- Manage $10m portfolio of enterprise accounts
- Top 10% performer, company-wide
Leadership
Leader Since - 2018
Teams Led - 5
Max Team Size - 25
Leaders led - 2
Hired - 30 +
Skills
Recent
- C# / .NET
- Python
Have Used
- JS
- Ruby
- Java
- Bash
- Batch
Studying
- C
- C++
Tools
- Gitlab
- Jenkins
- Git
- BitBucket
- DataDog
- Splunk
- Unity
- Kivy
- NUnit
- PyTest
- GCC Compiler
OS
- Windows
- Linux
- MacOs
Languages
- English (native)
- Japanese (fluent)
Education
University of Colorado
BA - Japanese
Colorado State University
BS - Business Administration