Shaun Yelle

About Shaun Yelle

I\'m an executive leader with over 15 years of experience in the software development industry, serving as a strategy & operations lead, technical advisor, engineering director, and technical program leader. I have a proven track record of scaling technical and business operations for companies, delivering cross-company projects, and hiring senior talent. I\'ve successfully done this in organizations of different sizes, from 30-person companies to CTOs and Amazon VPs whose scope is over people.Business Accomplishments:• Ensured alignment with C-level executives and board of directors by orchestrating the planning and review frameworks for our organizations and turning those into over 15 board-level quarterly business reviews and 5 yearly plans for organizations of over a thousand people.• Launched and maintained over 20 technical programs, many spanning across functions, departments, and companies.• Introduced and matured processes for FinOps, Recruiting, Career Performance, and Employee Morale Stewardship.• Revitalized 2 failing migrations from private to public cloud.• Successfully cultivated a metrics-driven culture in a distributed engineering team.• Ensured the “Voice of the Engineer” was heard during strategic planning by co-founding & running a Principal Engineering Community.• Improved how VPs and Directors communicated with C-level execs by establishing training on business communication.Technical Accomplishments:• Reduced major incident rate by ~73%(from 22/month to 6/month) and MTTR by 55% while simultaneously scaling an architecture with over 150 \"Tier 1\" microservices and with AI/ML components to handle over a billion transactions per month.• Reduced company-wide AWS costs by ~48% without loss of capabilities or an increase in major incidents. Profit-wise, this savings was roughly equivalent to signing multiple enterprise accounts.• Drove re-architecture of over 120 services to be containerized and stateless, unlocking resiliency benefits and enabling individual services to migrate to the public cloud in ~2 weeks instead of ~2 months.• Shifted SDLC from monolithic releases to CI/CD, unlocking faster development speed and cloud migration. Reduced ‘hands-on\' time to take code from a pull request to production by 20%.• Increased availability of a website with 18 million users and 370 million monthly page views from “3 nines” (99.9%) to “4 and a half nines” (99.995%).

Experience

1. Senior Director, Technical Program Management

   Capital One

   Jul 2023 — Present · McLean, VA, US

   I lead tech modernization and developer efficiency efforts for our consumer and business banks.

Education

• University of North Florida

  Bachelors, Computer Information Sciences, Computer Science

Skills

• Sass
• Sinatra
• Javascript
• Css
• Multivariate Testing
• Java
• Ruby
• Jira
• Mobile Applications
• Jquery
• Git
• Web Applications
• Team Leadership
• Ruby on Rails
• Game Development
• Databases
• Video Games
• Os X
• Mac Os X
• Html
• Performance Analysis
• Perl
• Software Project Management
• Php
• Web Development
• E-Commerce
• User Experience
• Quality Assurance
• Digital Marketing
• Conversion Optimization
• Debian
• Web Design
• Xml
• Project Management
• A/B Testing
• Web Analytics
• Usability Design
• Usability Engineering
• Sql
• Linux