Justin Wolf

About Justin Wolf

I am a dynamic software leader with global experience running complex software businesses for over 20 years with staff in the United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, India, and China. I translate customer needs into market value and possess the demeanor, skills, and experience to own your entire software engineering organization. I lead groups to become high-performing, reliable, and continuously improving through structured performance metrics. I believe in Lean Software Development, Design Thinking, and Servant Leadership and have seen the massive revenue growth resulting from better products that consistently resonate with customers.As Head of Software Engineering at Doosan GridTech, I lead the entire product software organization covering on-premises systems, cloud assets, and web interfaces.• Leading organizational transformation to evolve my group from a small, startup-style team to a comprehensive and mature software engineering group.• Created a ground-up cybersecurity program to meet multiple regulatory and commercial requirements such as NERC CIP, NIST CSF, and SOC 2 Type II.As VP of Software Engineering at Powin, I managed the entire software organization as revenue grew from $100M to $2B, average customer grew from $15M to $700M, and my group grew from 15 to 100 people.• Led software engineering for manufacturing testing, embedded development, on-premises and cloud software, web UI, and DevOps. This included QA, customer testing, field support, and cybersecurity.• Revived stalled deals to capture over $300M of additional revenue through creative technical solutions.As Senior Director of Software Development at Adtran, I led both engineering and product management for their suite of SaaS products valued at $180M consistently growing 30-40% YoY.• Championed modern methodologies, moving Adtran from monolithic quarterly releases to continuous value streams using CI/CD and DevOps.• Implemented team autonomy using technical leads to remove dependencies and bottlenecks enabling parallel release trains with high velocity.As Senior Engineering Manager at Cisco Systems, I was responsible for their SaaS-delivered residential device management portfolio.• Salvaged key accounts worth over $200M by listening to customer stakeholders and delivering products that solved their problems.• Defined and architected a large-scale network telemetry product collecting millions of datapoints per minute to provide real-time predictive analytics.Check out my articles on commercial software development: https://t.ly/KMMh5

Experience

1. Member, Industry Advisory Board

   Washington State University Vancouver

   Jan 2018 — Present

   Advise WSU-V CS department as a member of industry by providing recommendations on curricula changes, evaluations of their mission and vision statements, and feedback to the accreditation board. I have also been a guest lecturer, perform mock interviews for graduating students, and engage in special projects related to department objectives.

Education

• City University of Seattle

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Systems

  2004 — 2006

• Drexel University

  Master of Science, Engineering Management

  2006 — 2009

Skills

• Unix
• Assembly Language
• Regular Expressions
• Software Project Management
• Product Development
• Perl
• Embedded Systems
• Algorithms
• Team Management
• C#
• .net
• Scrum
• Agile Methodologies
• Systems Engineering
• C++
• Mfc
• Qt
• Engineering Management
• Sql
• Software Product Management
• Kanban