Neal Enssle

Engineering Manager

Reddit, Inc.

Mar 2024 - Current (2 years 6 months)

Reddit is the heart of the internet: 57+ million people conversing, creating, and connecting with more than 100,000 wildly eclectic communities. I serve on Reddit's moderation team, creating tools for community and subreddit moderators, and helping to make "the heart of the internet" a little bit safer and more fun.

Vice President of Engineering

Bend Health

Jan 2023 - Nov 2023 (11 months)

Bend Health, Inc. is a national pediatric mental healthcare provider with a mission to increase access to mental health care for children and families. My teams owned a custom, home-grown HIPAA-compliant electronic health records system (EHR/EMR) supporting collaborative mental health care (CoCM) for kids and families with both member and provider mobile-optimized portals (HIEs), an API, and complex integrations with external billing, scheduling, marketing, and healthcare systems. Led both strategic and day-to-day operations for Engineering, DevOps (SRE), Security, and QA (SDET). Took over direct leadership of the Product and Data Science organizations within my first 6 weeks. Grew my organizations by 3x in 4 months, from 3 FTE to 11 FTE en

Senior Engineering Manager

Twitter

Mar 2020 - Nov 2022 (2 years 9 months)

My teams in Twitter’s Trust & Safety organization owned a real-time, internet-scale rules engine and a home-grown ML content filtering platform (running thousands of rules and hundreds of ML models on 600K+ events per second) powering the detection and mitigation of spam, misinformation, and toxic or illegal content. Led 2 teams: A core platform team and a machine-learning (AI/ML) platform team. More than doubled the size of both geographically distributed teams within 6 months during the pandemic, from 7 engineers to more than 18 direct reports. Coached and mentored more than 6 junior managers. The full-stack developers on my teams worked in technologies that included Java, Scala, JavaScript, React, Ruby, Golang, Python, Kafka, Kubernetes,

Senior Director of Engineering

Recurly

Apr 2019 - Jan 2020 (10 months)

Recurly provides recurring payments, billing, revenue optimization, and subscription management services for subscription-based businesses worldwide, processing more than $5B/year through 20+ payment gateways. Led 3 teams: Payments (financial transactions, payment gateways, secure credit card encryption and vaulting), 3rd Party Ecosystem (API integrations), and Developer Experience (merchant developer tools). Doubled the size of the Payments team within six months. and later built the Developer Experience team from zero to 5 engineers in 4 months. I led 17 direct reports and 25+ team members (onsite and remote) in my organization, including 2 managers. Developers on these teams worked in a technology stack that included Ruby (Rails), JavaSc

Director of Engineering

Recurly

Feb 2018 - Apr 2019 (1 year 3 months)

Director of Software Development

Exabeam

May 2014 - Feb 2018 (3 years 10 months)

LogRhythm provides security intelligence and threat lifecycle management products (including SIEM, log analysis and management, file integrity monitoring, and network forensics) to detect and respond to threats. Led 7 teams: 3 onshore and 2 offshore (India) development teams, and the network monitoring team. I also created and led the user experience (UX) design team that produced designs for multiple product lines. Grew my organization by more than 400%, starting with 6 engineers and ending with 18 direct reports, 3 managers, 30 engineers, and more than 40 team members in my organization. Developers on these teams worked in JavaScript (React, AngularJS, Node.js), Java, C# (.NET), Golang, SQL Server, and Elasticsearch. My teams successfully

Senior Software Engineer

Broadcom

Jun 2013 - May 2014 (1 year)

Rally Software (acquired by Computer Associates and then Broadcom) provided cloud-based tools for managing agile software development. Developed features using JavaScript (Ext JS) and Groovy in a test-driven, pair programming environment. Added multiple features to Rally’s Roadmap Planning Board product in preparation for customer beta. Created a Groovy version of the Rally REST API during a two-week hackathon.

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Director of Technology

Nov 2006 - Jun 2013 (6 years 8 months)

Foraker Labs provided consulting services (software development and user experience design) to clients in a variety of industries including healthcare, transportation, marketing, and education. Led the design and development of multiple client applications across multiple teams. Doubled the size of the engineering team (from 5 to more than 10 developers). Engineers worked in ColdFusion, Java, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and Objective C. Led direct, hands-on technical, account, and project management for major local and remote client accounts, including account and team management responsibility for our biggest client (over 50% of revenue in years 2007-2011), helping realize 300% growth in monthly revenues on this account during my first 3 years. Ha

Senior Software Development Manager

Acxiom

Jul 2006 - Nov 2006 (5 months)

Acxiom provides identity resolution services to Fortune 500 customers. Acxiom acquired InsightAmerica (previously known e-InfoData.com), an aggregator of personal and business information, in 2005. Led tactical and strategic software development efforts, reporting to the CTO and CEO. Hired, mentored, and managed a team of 10+ engineers working on multiple simultaneous projects. Hands-on development work of new applications, and maintenance, refactoring, and conversion of legacy systems to new platforms (up to 75% of daily workload). Projects included leading the design and development of next-generation products for the debt recovery, risk mitigation, government services, and financial markets. Sole developer and designer for a web applicat

Software Development Manager

Acxiom

Jul 2004 - Jul 2006 (2 years 1 month)

Senior Software Developer

Acxiom

Jul 2002 - Jul 2004 (2 years 1 month)

Web Applications Developer

Howrey LLP

Oct 2000 - May 2002 (1 year 8 months)

Howrey was a nation-wide legal practice (now closed) specializing in antitrust and intellectual property. Duties included programming, graphic and interface design, and database development for multiple corporate intranet sites using ColdFusion and the Fusebox framework, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Flash. Developed and launched a database-driven employee evaluation system (1500 users), a high-volume file-request management system for the Records Management group, a successful product demonstration site for client recruitment, and a re-design and functional upgrade of the firm's corporate intranet.

Writer and Editor

Howrey LLP

Oct 1999 - Oct 2000 (1 year 1 month)

I worked as the writer in Howrey's burgeoning Marketing department. Duties included ghostwriting articles about company initiatives with senior executives, editing the company newsletter, production of a competitive analysis brief, and production of marketing materials.

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