Engineering Leader: AI, Cloud, and Scale-minded Manager

DEAN B

ENGINEERING MANAGER & LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Calgary, AB +1-403-***-**** ****.*********.***@*****.*** in/dean-b github.com/marchiani SUMMARY

Engineering Leader with 8+ years of software development experience and 4+ years managing high-performing, globally distributed teams. Proven track record building and scale engineering organizations, driving AI/ML product innovation, and leading cloud migrations that reduce costs and accelerate delivery. Expert in team growth, optimizing delivery through Agile practices across Azure, AWS and .NET ecosystem, with deep experience architecting scalable systems and delivering measurable business outcomes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Critical Controls Calgary, AB

Lead Software Engineer & Engineering Manager Aug 2022 - Present Directed engineering and technical ops for O&G SaaS platform, reporting to CTO. Built and scaled engineering team from 2 to 10+ team members (engineers, support team) while delivering 4+ major product initiatives. Shaped product vision and strategic planning to define roadmap priorities and align engineering with long-term business objectives.

● Scaled the engineering team from 2 to 10+ members across 4 timezones over 2 years by leading all hiring processes, conducting technical interviews, and building support and CSM functions alongside the core engineering team.

● Owned the engineering roadmap and delivered MVP for oil & gas accounting platform, enabling accurate revenue allocation, generating $3M in new revenue.

● Developed and integrated advanced computer vision AI to detect gas chart patterns from mobile phone images, reducing manual data entry intervention by 80% and cutting client processing costs significantly.

● Designed and led Azure cloud migration strategy, defining technical architecture and engineering standards for migrating on-premises infrastructure, resulting in 35% cost reduction and 3x scalability improvement.

● Improved legacy analytics software processes by introducing async processing, caching, and CI/CD data pipeline automation, reducing time-to-delivery for client analysis reports by 50%.

● Drove Agile adoption across multiple product teams in traditionally waterfall organization, accelerating development cycles by 40% and improving delivery predictability through sprint planning and structured ceremonies.

Zebra Remote, NY

Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack)Aug 2021 - Jul 2022 Led 3-person engineering team developing AI-powered employee management systems for retail and warehouse operations serving Fortune 500 clients including Walmart.

● Led senior engineering team to improve product sustainability and system reliability, reducing support requests by 70% through bug backlog resolution and QA process implementation.

● Boosted client retention by 35% by integrating AI into the management system for inventory optimization, employee distribution, and automated customer communication.

● Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Terraform during Azure migration, reducing release cycles from 2 days to 3 hours and improving deployment reliability by 85%.

● Collaborated with a global distributed team across US, India, Latin America, and Ukraine to deliver features for enterprise warehouse and retail management.

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Bamboo Dubai, AE

Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead Aug 2020 - Oct 2021 Managed gift card aggregator platform as Team Lead. Inherited team of 7 from departing lead and built technical support function to improve customer experience by 60%.

● Redesigned monolithic system into microservices architecture, tripling request throughput (3x performance improvement) and enabling 3x increase in transaction revenue capacity.

● Built and led technical support team from scratch, reducing developer workload by 40% and improving customer satisfaction scores (CSAT) by 60% through dedicated CSM/support resources.

● Managed annual budget planning and cost forecasting for engineering and support departments, optimizing resource allocation to support ~2x transaction revenue growth while maintaining cost efficiency targets.

● Spearheaded a high-performing engineering culture, balancing technical debt reduction with feature delivery. ShiftLab Remote, IN

Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack)Mar 2019 - Aug 2020 Joined an early-stage B2B employee scheduling startup as a senior engineer. Delivered MVP to first 10 paying clients and mentored junior developers through product launch phase.

● Delivered fully functional machine learning (ML) sales forecast model using Python and predictive algorithms, improving customer sales projections by 50% accuracy.

● Partnered with cross-functional teams to build MVP features for employee scheduling platform, enabling onboarding of first 10 paying clients and securing $500K in early revenue through direct client feedback sessions.

● Mentored 2 junior developers to mid-level proficiency over 18 months, providing technical guidance and code reviews while team lead focused on business development. Kraft Heinz Company Milan, IT

Software Engineer Jan 2018 - Mar 2019

Developed cloud-based employee efficiency analytics platform for global manufacturing operations.

● Built cloud computing analytics feature analyzing employee efficiency using Excel reports, automated graphs, and Power BI dashboards, providing executives with real-time performance insights.

● Enhanced user authentication by integrating Microsoft and Google SSO services, reducing login time by 40% and improving user adoption rates by 25% across global teams.

● Maintained and improved legacy C# application serving manufacturing operations across European facilities. EDUCATION

Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Completed

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering

University of Calgary Completed

Professional Diploma, Advanced Project Management

SKILLS & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

● Languages/Frameworks: C#, .NET, Python, SQL (Server, MySQL, Oracle), JavaScript, React, Golang.

● Cloud & DevOps: Azure, AWS, CI/CD, Docker, Terraform, Git, DevOps practices.

● Data & Analytics: Reporting solutions, BI tools (Power BI), Data pipelines, Machine Learning, Pandas, NumPy.

● Leadership & Practices: Agile/Scrum, Test-Driven Development, Stakeholder Management, Technical Roadmaps, Mentorship.

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