Technology Leader Software Development
Resume:
ANDRES RANGEL
Software Engineering Leader
View Park, CA • 954-***-****
LinkedIn • *******@*****.***
Summary
Innovative and detail-oriented technology leader with 20+ years’ expertise delivering high-impact solutions. Proven success guiding engineering teams to design, develop, and release innovative backend services—leverages skills to build and scale globally distributed teams. Cultivates dynamic environments, provides technical leadership/mentorship, and leads collaborative teams to excellence. Encourages continuous learning and professional growth. Critical problem solver; embraces challenges for growth and innovation. Collaborates with senior leaders to build and implement company’s engineering vision, aligned with objectives and market trends. Implements diversity and inclusion awareness in tech sector through global teams; fosters open communication and shared goals towards excellent synergy and outstanding results. Introduces Agile practices to drive rapid delivery of quality projects, programs, and products. Fluent in English and Spanish. Core Competencies:
• Agile Development Practices
• Analytics
• AWS
• Business Intelligence
• Business Strategy
• Cloud Computing
• Content Management
• Corporate Leadership
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Enterprising Hiring Practices
• Managing Global Teams
• Organizational Development
• Product Development
• Project Roadmaps Negotiations
• Scalable Database Services
• Strategic Planning
• Technical Engineering
• User Experience
CAREER EXPERIENCE
VP SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, LIFECYCLE MESSAGING 10/2022 to 07/2023 DisneyStreaming – Los Angeles, CA
Led geographically distributed team; spearheaded development of cutting-edge messaging infrastructure to support transactional and marketing needs. Enabled communication; enhanced customer experiences across Disney+, Hulu, and Star+. Collaborated with cross-functional teams (product management, design, operations); defined strategic roadmaps, prioritized projects, and aligned engineering efforts with business objectives. Implemented event-driven architecture; ensured scalability, availability, and fault tolerance to process large message volumes. Implemented quality assurance processes; monitored performance metrics; ensured optimal system performance and reliability. Key Achievements:
• Led development of messaging infrastructure supporting 200M+ global users.
• Directed team of 60+ engineers, architects, and technical leads across US, South America, and China.
• Improved productivity and faster time-to-market for new features by introducing Agile methodologies and streamlining the development process.
• Recruited and hired top engineering talent to build high-performing and diverse teams.
• Drove a culture of continuous professional growth—provided technical guidance/ mentorship to engineering team. VP SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, USER IO 8/2021 to 10/2022 DisneyStreaming – Los Angeles, CA
Oversaw User IO team in development of user interaction infrastructure for Disney+, Hulu, and Star+, for teams across the US and Beijing. Developed executive plans to build scalable system for user interaction, enhancing experiences and aligning with long-term business goals. Worked with cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize projects, allocate resources, and ensure successful project delivery. Collaborated cross-functionally (product management, design) to translate product requirements into technical solutions. Encouraged team to improve skills, exploring new technologies and methodologies—conducted performance evaluations, provided mentorship, and identified career development opportunities to cultivate high-performing teams. ANDRES RANGEL PAGE 2 OF 3
Key Achievements:
• Led development of innovative solutions, improving customer experience, and driving Disney’s brand marketing in streaming services.
• Designed and implemented tracking mechanism; allowed users to resume content from where they left off across multiple devices—scaled to 200M+ customers.
• Rearchitected Digital Video Recorder feature; reduced costs by half.
• Built real-time notification system, delivering personalized updates/reminders for live events, ensuring users never miss favorite games.
• Implemented best practices to optimize user-facing system performance, scalability, and responsiveness. DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, USER IDENTITY 06/2019 to 08/2021 Hulu – Los Angeles, CA
Guided user identity team’s development of services powering user infrastructure and identity management. Coordinated distributed teams across Seattle, Santa Monica, and Beijing. Ensured user identity and messaging system’s security, quality, and reliability. Delivered projects on time, and within budget. Key Achievement:
• Spearheaded development of scalable and secure user identity solutions; enabled seamless user authentication, authorization, and personalization across Hulu—drove innovation by adopting emerging technologies. DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, CONTENT EXPERIENCE 07/2017 to 06/2019 Hulu – Los Angeles, CA
Directed Content Experience teams; oversaw content management, video playback, live video, test automation, user infrastructure, and transactional messaging systems—enabled efficient ingestion, categorization, and delivery of multimedia content. Developed test automation frameworks; facilitated efficient testing, and ensured quality of content experience systems. Managed seamless product launches for internal teams; provided reliable and scalable database services. Build robust data infrastructure team—created in-house NoSQL, SQL database services (including MySQL, Redis, Cassandra).
Key Achievements:
• Directed Content Experience teams compromised of 100+ engineers, tpms, and principal/architects.
• Optimized performance, scalability, and reliability—designed and developed core backend services.
• Increased efficiency; enhanced overall quality—developed and executed software development and improvement strategies.
SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LEAD, CORE SERVICES 03/2012 to 07/2017 Hulu – Los Angeles, CA
Played key role as architect for Showtime add-on; enhanced content offerings and users. Led Core Services— supported playback, view tracking, and browse functionalities. Key Achievement:
• Transformed ad experience for Hulu users—spearheaded creation of no-ads product. ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Software Developer Oversee.net – Miami/Fort Lauderdale, FL 2007 to 2012 Software Developer Girosol Corp. – Miami/Fort Lauderdale, FL 2005 to 2007 ANDRES RANGEL PAGE 3 OF 3
SPECIAL PROGRAM
Executive Lead, LATIMAS The Walt Disney Company – Los Angeles, CA Oversaw Business Enterprise Resource Group (BERG) dedicated to improving and enhancing Latinx community within organization. Created and implemented strategies promoting diversity, inclusion, and growth opportunities for employees (i.e., collaborating with senior leadership and HR to align LATIMAS initiative within overall goals). Facilitated events, networking opportunities, and workshops to enable community engagement and cultural celebration—supported members in building sense of belonging and empowerment. Established external partnerships to drive initiatives and community outreach programs. Advocated for Latinx voices and representation in decision-making and resource allocation. Developed mentorship and sponsorship programs. Collaborated with other affinity groups and BERGs to encourage cross-cultural understanding. Monitored and reported on LATIMAS initiatives to senior leadership.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Universidad de Los Andes – Bogota, Colombia Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Universidad de Los Andes – Bogota, Colombia PATENTS
Bundling of video asset variants in a database for video delivery US US10425691B2 – Issued 09/24/2019
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/2a/40/b6/0cf45f3143f8e6/US10425691.pdf Kernel policy optimization for computing workloads US US10228973B2 – Issued 03/12/2019
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/21/31/f0/7a810009aaf11a/US10228973.pdf
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