Roger Wyatt

Director of Engineering

• Scale & Leadership: Directed an engineering organization of 75+ developers focused on implementing complex network architectures for core enterprise software products.
• SaaS Transformation: Built a specialized team of 18+ engineers to completely redesign legacy software applications into modern, true SaaS implementations utilizing Kubernetes, Kafka, Argo, Kargo, and MongoDB.
• Efficiency Metrics: Streamlined cross-functional workflows to accelerate customer environment provisioning timelines from 3 months down to 2 weeks.
• Performance Optimization: Achieved a 146X performance improvement in formal testing, slashing response latency from 14 seconds to 400 milliseconds while reducing projected operating costs by over $4MM annually.
• AI Innovation: Drove team integration of Claude Code to elevate engineering quality and spearheaded development of proprietary AI agents to replace legacy coding dependencies.
• CI/CD & Observability: Reduced system deployment windows from 2 weeks to 15 minutes while engineering comprehensive enterprise observability using Grafana dashboards and proactive health checks.
• Incident Response: Commanded incident engineering response for critical SEV1 events via data-driven troubleshooting and control variable testing, interfacing directly with Executive Leadership Teams (ELT) for top-tier global clients.

Director of Software Engineering

• Revenue Growth: Led a 50+ person team delivering 20+ core software products that directly yielded $3BN+ in revenue growth.
• Technical Roadmapping: Formulated the technical product strategy and architectural roadmaps for 10+ internal enterprise tools supporting a user base of 10,000+.
• Architectural Innovation: Engineered parameter-driven, runtime module-loading software architectures, resulting in an organization-wide 50%+ baseline performance lift and specific application gains exceeding 200%.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborated across 10+ cross-functional business units to identify, address, and capture over $100MN+ in previously unrealized opportunity costs.
• Core Tech Stack: Leveraged C#, MSSQL, NuGet, and Azure web services within an Agile development framework.

Chief Technology Officer

• AI Strategy: Initiated the development and technical execution of an AI-driven financial services platform that generated $1BN+ in revenue.
• Scalable Infrastructure: Authored the engineering strategy and mobile/web roadmaps necessary to scale consumer applications to support 10MN+ active users.
• Organizational Design: Structured, scale-built, and managed an engineering department exceeding 200+ developers, managers, and architects.
• Capital Acquisition: Successfully pitched technical product capabilities to international investor syndicates, securing $10MN+ in early capital commitments.
• Global Enterprise Pitches: Architected and presented a $5BN+ ARR technical framework targeted at the African continent for business magnate Carlos Slim, and designed a $2MN ARR engineering solution for a key German enterprise client.

Senior Engineering Manager

• Executive Solutions: Led a 100+ person engineering group developing strategic, high-visibility software portfolios valued at $50MN for CEO Richard Fairbanks.
• Cost Containment: Architected high-performance systems that realized $30MN in immediate operational savings while driving a 12,000%+ increase in processing speed.
• Robotic Process Automation (RPA): Directed a dedicated 30-engineer RPA task force to implement intelligent automation workflows, securing $15MM in recurring annual savings.
• Talent Acquisition: Recruited, interviewed, onboarded, and mentored 30+ cross-functional engineers and technical leaders.
• Reliability Engineering: Evangelized cutting-edge distributed architectures to minimize system downtime, bolster data integrity, and guarantee platform reliability.

Deputy Program Manager

• Program Management: Supervised a $12M federal program and a 75-person team comprising managers, developers, QA analysts, and project managers to deliver Identity and Access Management (IAM) software solutions for the Veterans Administration.
• Strategic Staffing: Sourced and hired 40 niche technical experts, establishing a robust leadership pipeline by mentoring team leads to enhance delegation and project oversight.
• Stakeholder Relations: Interfaced directly with Senior Executive Service (SES) leaders within the Veterans Administration to harmonize development velocity with federal compliance priorities.

Technical Architect / Developer Lead

• Enterprise Architecture: Overhauled a massive web services infrastructure supporting 500+ secure endpoints across Medicare and Medicaid operations, securing a $1BN+ business segment.
• Telephony Automation: Designed and executed an automated Voice Response infrastructure capable of managing over 100M+ inbound customer interactions annually.
• Technical Mentorship: Institutionalized modern design principles and Gang of Four (GoF) software patterns across engineering squads to boost code maintainability.

Software Development Manager

• Federal Project Control: Led the architectural modernization of a critical financial accounting ecosystem tracking $2BN+ in federal assets, directly supporting the presidential directive to phase out the Space Shuttle program.
• Process Engineering: Optimized fiscal year data rollover algorithms, generating $200K+ in direct engineering and operational savings.
• Legacy Modernization: Orchestrated the extraction, transformation, and migration of 2,000,000+ legacy mainframe records into a highly secure, web-based ecosystem.

President

• Startup Operations: Founded and scaled a proprietary LAMP-stack web content management solution (CMS) company.
• Business Development: Negotiated and finalized over $1M in enterprise B2B software contracts.
• Product Lifecycle Management: Directed the end-to-end product roadmap and P&L, executing three core software upgrades that drove a 200% surge in active users.