Felix Gallo

About Felix Gallo

Seasoned, pragmatic, customer-focused industry veteran with a long record of building and running top tier engineering organizations and delivering results, ranging from financial services to videogames to Disney theme park ride experiences to Amazon Channels, Amazon Alexa, Amazon Assessments, and Amazon Just Walk Out Technology. Tireless champion for strong and positive corporate culture and effective processes, mechanisms and organizational alignment.

Experience

1. Sr Software Development Manager

   Amazon

   May 2019 — Present

   Owned the Alexa app platform and core functionality through explosive customer expansion, building a multi-site cross-functional team from scratch, saving the holiday season twice, and delivering a fundamental monolith-to-microservices migration spanning many VPs and hundreds of partner teams.Built remote teams in Vancouver to create and deliver Amazon Assessments to augment/replace a thicket of heterogenous assessment vendors, significantly improving the application experience for millions of applicants and hiring managers and radically improving the scientific accuracy, measurability, and performance of the interview process.Led historically operational teams in Just Walk Out through a time of significant rework, organizational right-sizing, and reprioritization/refocus. Successfully campaigned for greenfield program that ended up unlocking significant customer demand and reducing time-to-first-operational-store from 1Y+ to months, transforming operational teams into full-lifecycle, high performing engineering teams.

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  BA, Rhetoric

  1987 — 1991