Joseph Byrne
San Ramon,CA
Summary
Dynamic executive leader with extensive tenure as Executive CTO at AppDynamics/Cisco, specializing in Observability, APM, and AIOps. Renowned for crafting cutting-edge strategies, doubling sales opportunities, and building high-impact teams. Demonstrated expertise in cloud platforms, Agile methodologies, and strategic leadership. Adept at operations management, team leadership, software development lifecycle, and AI/ML integration. Proven track record of driving digital transformation and delivering quality results.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Executive CTO
AppDynamics/Cisco
10.2017 - Current
- Executive Leadership team, specializing in Observability, APM, and AIOps
- Lead global team of CTOs and Technical Marketing Engineers
- Act as industry expert in new technologies and development practices
- Champion customer advocacy and technical leadership
- Drive product roadmaps, vision, and industry evangelism
- Assist with B2B product implementation and scale
- Achieved $100M+ influence on annual pipeline and 2x increase in sales opportunities.
Head of Engineering
Albertsons Companies
09.2016 - 10.2017
- Led Quality Engineering, Program Management, and DevOps
- Led cloud migration to Azure cloud
- Aligned QA with Agile SDLC resulting in two week sprints with reduction in production defects by 50%
- Implemented automation throughout SDLC reducing release timelines
- Led vendor selection and relationship management
- Built out CI/CD process increasing production releases from weekly to daily
Vice President of Engineering
ELLIE MAE, INC
07.2013 - 09.2016
- Responsible for directing team comprised of 350 developers across 12 products representing $200M in revenue Consistently optimized quality of major releases on annual basis to customer base of 120K users
- Oversee hiring of executive-level technology leaders to drive next generation updates to all products
- Collaborate with teams on development of open platform strategy aimed at using Amazon API Gateway in intensely regulated environment
- Automate unit and functional testing
- Own long-term technology strategy and roadmap
- Key Achievements: Utilized strategies that expanded technical organization from - 75 to 400 within 2-year period
- Drove the M&A technical due diligence and subsequent integration of 3 separate acquisitions
- Collaboratively developed and executed next-generation strategy to migrate products to cloud
- Delivered product updates on time and on budget for largest changes to compliance and regulations in industry history
- Migrated offshore dev and qa from China to India over 6-month period with no impact to velocity.
Education
MBA - Technology Management
University of Phoenix
San JoseBachelor of Arts - Liberal Studies
Cal State Hayward
Hayward, CASkills
Agile / SCRUM, Observability, AIOps, AI/ML, Cloud Platforms, DevOps, Quality Assurance, Digital Transformation, Executive-Level Staff Hiring, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Software Development Lifecycle, Observability, Java, Angular JS, Net, PHP, HTML, SQL, MySQL, Mongo, Solr, Lucene, Networking, LAN / WAN, IOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS X, Red Hat Linux, Microsoft Office, Product Development Strategy, Managing Global Teams, Machine Learning, Identifying Opportunities, Resource Allocation, R&D, SRE, Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement
Timeline
Executive CTO
AppDynamics/Cisco
10.2017 - Current
Head of Engineering
Albertsons Companies
09.2016 - 10.2017
Vice President of Engineering
ELLIE MAE, INC
07.2013 - 09.2016
MBA - Technology Management
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Studies
Cal State Hayward
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