Marius Nel

About Marius Nel

Senior Software Engineering leader with 20+ years of banking and finance experience, having worked in Big Four and Start-Up organizations. My expertise lies in cloud-based software products, focusing on security and networking while successfully solving complex customer problems. Strengths include but are not limited to clear product vision, building empowered teams, coaching, driving cultural change and towards exponential growth of new and existing products, and ensuring product/market fit while leading organizations of over 50 cross-functional individuals. Drawing from my experiences at organizations such as Amazon and MYOB, establishing robust relationships has been vital to achieving long-term organizational success, while deep business acumen spanning various industries has enabled me to impact bottom-line revenue growth positively and predictably. I seek an opportunity to collaborate with stakeholders and deliver business value through technology. want to connect? d•••@nel.id.au (https://calendly.com/nelcal/) Career Highlights Reduced Go-to-Market: From 72 weeks to 10 days, reduced cloud infrastructure cost by 37%. By technology integration, product consolidation, and improved product delivery efficiency by 27%. Global Network Monitoring System: Successfully deployed a global network monitoring system across 75 local zones, utilizing my leadership skills in managing large-scale projects with global impact. Reduced Provisioning Time: Provisioning was reduced from 127 days to 5 days, vastly enhancing customer satisfaction and streamlining operations, with a cost savings of more than $171M. ISO27001 Certification: Certification for allowing integration with the Australian Tax Office. Accomplished certification in under 9 months, implementing a strategic risk management framework. Strategic Market, Team Growth: 35% increase in new Alexa subscriptions by strengthening relationships with technical and hiring partners. Team growth of 57%, and YOY subscription growth of 27%. Skills: Communication | Products | Growth | Collaborate | Services | Customer | Architecture | Customers | Software Engineering | Planning | Collaboration | Implementation | Coaching | Integration | Mentoring | Innovation | Strategic | Distributed Systems | Operations | Organizational | Coach | Operational Excellence | Passion | Devops | Problem Solving | Risk | Accountable | Coding | Communicating || Full Stack | Prioritization | Recruiting | Saas | Strategies | Kafka | Cloud Security | AWS | GCP | Identity Access Management | SAAS | Banking | Finance | Web3

Experience

1. Software Development Manager Ec2

   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   Nov 2021 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Managed the vision and operations for 4 discreet services that supported the health of networks and EC2 Outposts. Established a new service for provisioning installation on new customer sites and successfully expanded the team to include 15 Security and Software Engineers. Implemented an Agile-based framework (Initiation, Refinement, Consolidation, and Rollout), reducing manual asset builds from 7 days to 4 hours. Automated new hardware provisioning from 127 days to 5, supporting over hardware assets globally and cost savings of more than $171M. Collaborated with leadership and engineers to define a network monitoring vision. Led full-scope delivery to deploy a network monitoring system globally across 75 local zones. Successfully delivered the project 17% below budget while serving all internal and external stakeholders. Automation reduced the effort of provisioning new sites from 4 weeks to 1.5 days while generating 5 patents.Additional: IT Operations, Systems Analysis, Process Improvement, Project Management, Team Management, People Management, Architecture

Education

• MBA (2025)

  MBA (2025)

• Bachelor's Degree in Technology Management

  Bachelor's Degree in Technology Management, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management