Jagun Rimes

About Jagun Rimes

With over 25 years of experience in software engineering and leadership, I have a background in steering complex projects and high-performing teams, I have leveraged expertise in growth-focused strategic planning, transformative software design and delivery, and cross-functional collaboration. It is my passion to deliver impactful solutions, optimize engineering operations, and advance organizations to the next level. Key Achievements Include: Leveraged Snowflake and Fivetran to integrate data from JIRA, creating advanced dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs) that enabled data-driven decision-making and improved communication with direct reports and executive leadership. Skillfully managed 3 departments, IT, SRE, and Software Development, employing superior leadership abilities and engineering expertise to catapult delivery from 50%-70% to 85%-100% of sprint commitments Executed hyper-growth strategic planning, developing and implementing the company’s 1st-ever roadmap, pay band, and career development plan to expand the engineering team to 26 engineers and 4 engineer managers Championed the development of a competency framework to clarify employee expectations, support career advancement, and enhance staff retention, morale, and productivity, enthusiastically gaining buy-in from senior leadership and still utilized today Navigated teams through a company-wide transition to Kubernetes, as well as the conversion from a manual app to an automated app utilizing Bamboo, leading to elevated performance Secured the leadership of an application for one of the world\'s largest logistics companies from the contractor, and re-architectured from an NodeJS monolithic app on ECS to a microservice app utilizing Java to implement Kubernetes in AWS, accelerating monthly users from 291 to 6K and monthly gross income from $100K to $7.5M Contact me through this profile if you wish to connect.

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Updater

   Oct 2023 — Present

   Leveraged Snowflake and Fivetran to integrate data from JIRA, creating advanced dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs) that enabled data-driven decision-making and improved communication with direct reports and executive leadership.• Established a standard for reference architecture documentation and associated onboarding documentation in the 1st 60 days of tenure

Education

• DePaul University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

• DePaul University

  Masters of Science, Computer Science