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Resumes
August 13, 2026
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Use these ATS-friendly resume examples and templates to showcase your organisation scale, delivery, and reliability results as a Director Of Software Engineering.
Idris Bamidele
(206) 555-0182 ◇ Seattle, WA
idris.bamidele@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/idris-bamidele ◇ idrisbamidele.com
Objective
Director of software engineering with 16 years in software, leading an organisation of 85 engineers across 9 teams that build the payments platform for a software company with $700M in revenue. Cut lead time from commit to production from 11 days to 1, raised platform availability from 99.5% to 99.97%, and grew the organisation from 40 to 85 engineers while holding voluntary attrition under 8%. Leads through engineering managers and technical leads, sets the standards, and measures the organisation on what it ships and how reliably it runs.
Education
M.S. in Computer Science, Elliott Bay Line University 2008 – 2010
Coursework in Distributed Systems, Software Architecture, Databases, and Security.
B.S. in Computer Engineering, Elliott Bay Line University 2004 – 2008
Completed an executive engineering leadership programme in 2021 and holds AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification.
Skills
Engineering Leadership
Multi-team organisation design, engineering manager development, hiring and retention, engineering strategy and roadmap ownership, budget and headcount planning, executive communication
Delivery and Reliability
Continuous delivery and platform engineering, service level objectives and incident management, architecture governance, technical debt strategy, security and compliance in regulated systems
Technical Domain
Payments and financial systems, distributed services, event-driven architecture, cloud infrastructure, data consistency and reconciliation, API platforms
Tools & Platforms
AWS, Kubernetes, Java and Go, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Datadog, GitHub, Jira
Experience
Director of Software Engineering, Payments Platform 02/2021 – Present
Elliott Bay Crown Software Seattle, WA
- Lead an organisation of 85 engineers across 9 teams through 7 engineering managers, building a payments platform that processes $40B a year for a $700M revenue software company.
- Cut lead time from commit to production from 11 days to 1 and raised deployment frequency from weekly to about 60 a day through a platform engineering team and a continuous delivery standard.
- Raised platform availability from 99.5% to 99.97% and grew the organisation from 40 to 85 engineers while holding voluntary attrition under 8%.
Senior Engineering Manager 05/2016 – 01/2021
Cascadia Crown Commerce Seattle, WA
- Led 4 teams of 32 engineers building the checkout and order services for a commerce platform with 20M monthly customers.
- Led the migration of a monolithic checkout into 12 services with 0 customer-facing downtime across 18 months and a 45% cut in incident volume.
- Grew 3 senior engineers into engineering managers and built the promotion framework adopted across a 200-person engineering organisation.
Engineering Manager, then Senior Software Engineer 07/2010 – 04/2016
Cascadia Crown Commerce Seattle, WA
- Built order management services as a senior engineer for 3 years, then managed a team of 8 for 3 years.
- Delivered the order service rewrite that cut order processing latency from 900 milliseconds to 120 and handled a 5 times peak season load.
- Managed a team of 8 that shipped 14 releases a year with a 98% on-time record against roadmap commitments.
Projects
Continuous Delivery Transformation. Built a platform engineering team of 8, a paved-road deployment pipeline with automated testing and progressive rollout, and a standard that every team adopted over 12 months, which cut lead time from 11 days to 1, raised deployments to about 60 a day, and cut change failure rate from 18% to 4%.
Reliability Programme. Defined service level objectives for 40 payment services, built an incident management process with blameless reviews and a weekly reliability review, and funded 20% of capacity for reliability work, which raised availability from 99.5% to 99.97% and cut major incidents from 26 a year to 5.
Organisation Scaling. Grew the organisation from 40 to 85 engineers across 9 teams in 3 years, hiring 5 engineering managers, defining team charters and ownership boundaries, and running a career framework with 6 levels, which held voluntary attrition under 8% against an industry rate near 15%.
Extra-Curricular Activities
- Speak at engineering leadership conferences about 3 times a year on delivery and reliability.
- Mentor 4 engineering managers a year through an industry leadership programme.
- Serve on the advisory board of a university computer science department, meeting 3 times a year.
Leadership
- Lead 85 engineers through 7 engineering managers and 4 principal engineers, and serve on the engineering leadership team of 6.
- Developed 9 engineers into engineering managers and 2 managers into directors across 10 years.
- Own a $22M annual engineering budget and present platform strategy to the chief technology officer and the executive team quarterly.
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