Software Engineering Manager with 15+ Years Leadership Experience

Tatyana Vogman

Cambridge, MA • 781-***-**** • *******.******@*****.*** • LinkedIn: tatyana-vogman-21203510

Software Engineering Manager Distributed Systems Reliability & Quality

Mission-driven engineering leader with 15+ years of experience delivering secure, scalable platforms and mission-critical software, including 2+ years leading teams of 8–12 engineers across backend, web, QA, and DevOps. Hands-on leader who stays close to architecture and code, driving reliability, performance, maintainability, and predictable delivery. Strong cross-functional partner to Product, Security, Compliance, Operations, and customer-facing stakeholders, with a track record of turning ambiguous requirements into clear plans, stable releases, and measurable execution. Daily user of GenAI tools to accelerate design, coding, testing, and documentation while maintaining rigorous human review.

Core Strengths

Hands-on leadership / player-coach: Technical guidance, design reviews, decision records, mentoring, and coaching cadence through 1:1s and growth plans.

Scalable, reliable software delivery: Distributed systems, REST APIs, microservices, event-driven integration, operational readiness, and incident triage.

Engineering excellence: Code quality, reviews, documentation, test strategy, release readiness, phased rollouts, and monitoring and alerting.

Performance and maintainability: Latency tracking, defect and escape-rate focus, and reliability-first delivery metrics.

Cross-functional influence and culture: RACI and RAID forums, stakeholder alignment, early tradeoff surfacing, and fewer late-cycle surprises.

Cloud and delivery systems: AWS, GitLab CI/CD, automation, environment and configuration management, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

GenAI-enabled engineering workflows: Design and code review support, test generation, triage, and documentation.

Technical Skills

Languages and Platforms: C#, Java, .NET, WCF, Visual Studio

Architecture: Distributed systems, REST APIs, microservices, event-driven integration

Cloud and DevOps: AWS, GitLab CI/CD, automation, environment and configuration management

Data: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, dashboards, operational reporting

Agile Delivery: Scrum, Kanban, backlog refinement, estimation, release planning, delivery metrics

Quality and Operations: Test strategy, release readiness, monitoring and alerts, incident triage, risk mitigation

Professional Experience

Engineering Manager / Senior Product Manager (Agile Product Owner), Product Development

IDEMIA — Bedford, MA 07/2023 – 02/2026

Selected accomplishments:

Led a high-performing team of 8–12 engineers across backend, web, QA, and DevOps to deliver secure, scalable platform capabilities aligned with roadmap commitments.

Served as a hands-on player-coach, guiding architecture and technical decisions through design reviews and decision records while raising standards for maintainability, testability, and operational readiness.

Improved delivery predictability by leading Agile execution end to end, achieving an average ~3-week cycle time for planned work while maintaining reliability.

Owned release execution and production stability through definition of done, test gates, readiness reviews, phased rollouts, and monitoring, reducing late-cycle surprises and accelerating triage.

Built multi-quarter technical roadmaps across workstreams, balancing time to market, quality, dependencies, and technical risk.

Strengthened engineering culture through regular 1:1s, onboarding, feedback, and growth plans that supported leveling, promotion readiness, candor, and accountability.

Implemented structured risk management, including mitigation plans and failure-mode thinking, to proactively reduce technical and operational risk.

Integrated daily GenAI workflows for requirements drafting, code review support, and documentation to increase team throughput while preserving human oversight.

Principal Software Engineer / Technical Lead

IDEMIA — Bedford, MA 01/2011 – 07/2023

oDesigned and implemented secure platform architectures for identity and authentication services, leading technical work across design, implementation, testing, and production support.

Built and evolved service APIs and integration frameworks that enabled scalable, reliable workflows while meeting security and reliability requirements.

Modernized legacy C# services to improve performance, reliability, and maintainability, including resolving concurrency and production stability challenges.

Created architecture documentation and operational runbooks that streamlined onboarding, support, deployment configuration, and release readiness.

Senior Consultant (Contract)

Eliassen Group (TJX Corp) — Framingham, MA 01/2010 – 12/2010

Architected and built distributed enterprise services in C# and WCF to improve integration, scalability, and processing efficiency.

Senior Database Developer / Integration Architect

Trimble Navigation Limited — Waltham, MA 01/2008 – 12/2009

Led integration services using C#, WCF, MSMQ, and XML/SOAP messaging, and refactored enterprise frameworks to improve adaptability and system integration.

(Earlier roles available upon request; retained in your master resume.)

Education

BS, Statistics / Analysis / Management — College of Economics, Tula, Russia

Certifications

Microsoft Certification Program (Project Management, PMI 2025); Angular Bootcamp; MCTS certifications (WCF/WWF and related).

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