Levi Siebens

Levi Siebens

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Director of Engineering
Bothell, Washington, United States
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  • ECFX
    Vice President of Product and Engineering
    ECFX
    Nov 2023 - Current (3 years)
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    Founder & Lead Technologist
    ZettaNexus
    Jul 2023 - Current (3 years 4 months)
    Established a business with the vision of harnessing technology to enhance individual experiences and lives. The initial project focuses on improving job application search process by leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP) and AI/ML. - Developed a platform centralizing job opportunities tailored to individual users' requirements. Successfully integrated NLP to fine-tune search results, ensuring users find roles aligning with their skills and interests. Achieved a notable 50% reduction in erroneous search results and cut the time users spent in finding roles by 80%. - Utilized AI/ML algorithms to distill job postings, enabling users to quickly understand and apply to positions without sifting through jargon. This strategy considerably
  • CommentSold
    Director Of Engineering
    CommentSold
    Jan 2022 - Jul 2023 (1 year 7 months)
    - Grew a small software development team to 30 engineering members with multiple managers in a startup environment, working collaboratively across multiple teams and disciplines (development, architecture, quality, DevOps). Teams worked in Golang, React, Node.js, PHP, and GraphQL. - Led delivery of core platform functionality (payments, shipping, returns, external integrations). This opened a new market vertical expected to account for ~25% of annual revenue. - Managed a team of engineers who streamlined the experience of creating white-label mobile apps (Android / iOS) for customers with a time reduction of 95% to market. - Built and used existing project management tools integrated with Jira to track progress, identify key risk areas, and
  • OpenText
    Director Of Engineering
    OpenText
    Sep 2018 - Dec 2021 (3 years 4 months)
    - Drove technology roadmap to modernize the 30-year-old CallXpress telecommunications platform. - Projects included a multi-year strategy to change software architecture from a monolith to a containerized system via Docker, enabling cloud deployments, development of a modern Angular web interface, a reworking of existing APIs, expanded feature sets, new mobile development, integrations, and cross-compatibility, and enhanced security features to unlock sales into specific industries (law, education, government). Development included Angular, React, Node.js, C++, .Net, Java, and various JS frameworks. - Ensured dockerized software could be leveraged across multiple cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Internal). - Led process improvements and structura
  • Ascentis a UKG Company
    Director Of Software Quality
    Ascentis a UKG Company
    Aug 2017 - Sep 2018 (1 year 2 months)
    - Hired as part of a leadership team focused on tripling the company staff with responsibility for leading and scaling an initial eight-member QA team, improving processes, and building out automation infrastructure. - Led a 25-member distributed team of engineers and managers in the turnaround of the HCM product suite. - Migrated native functionality (C++ / Java / Cobol / .Net/ C#) to a web-based architecture with a modern interface. - Introduced test automation and increased test coverage, adapted delivery and release processes and provided additional training to reduce bugs by ~95%. -Transformed engineering processes, organizational structure, and culture. Introduced Scale Agile/SAFe principles, adopted a test case management system, and
  • Vertafore
    Engineering Lead
    Vertafore
    Jul 2014 - Aug 2017 (3 years 2 months)
    - Led a 20-member engineering team in the development of Vertafore Agency Platform, a comprehensive platform for insurance agencies built on .Net, Angular, JavaScript, MongoDB (NoSQL), and SQL. Work included the creation of a modern web UI architecture that is integrated with multiple legacy applications while improving workflows and user experience. - Managed and grew three geographically diverse Scrum teams responsible for creating a customer-centric cross-product insurance platform and workflow management engine, which adhered to regulatory requirements. - Balanced teams' workloads between feature development, product engineering, product improvement, and customer support to deliver the right customer experience at the right time. - Cent
  • Amazon
    Engineer
    Amazon
    Nov 2011 - Jul 2014 (2 years 9 months)
    - Architected, led, and developed a scalable remote execution framework for mobile devices. This full-stack infrastructure is used for the execution of automated testing, device management, and continuous integration across Amazon. - Wrote various frameworks to enable quick/maintainable automation, data-driven testing, and the use of visual recognition (where appropriate) on different mobile platforms. - Led the effort to adopt a cross-platform automation solution to write automation once and run anywhere (iOS/Android/Kindle). - Mentored interns (SDE/SDET) and new employees (QAE/SDET). - Conducted performance, reliability, and stress API testing for the highly scalable mobile push notification platform (iOS, Android, etc.) that serviced all
  • Microsoft
    Engineer
    Microsoft
    Aug 2008 - Nov 2011 (3 years 4 months)
    Testing: - Tested system-level components and APIs for data roaming infrastructure. - Tested the touch-centric logon path to Windows 8 and contributed heavily to both testing and design of the areas (including patent for picture logon). - Wrote UI and API automation using data-driven techniques. - Performed standard and scenario-based manual testing to ensure a quality user experience. - Worked to root cause issues through debugging. - Contributed to the UI automation development standard held by the Windows team. Development Projects: - Wrote an end-to-end virtual machine deployment tool for setting up fully customized Windows builds, which cut time from deployment to the start of testing by more than half. - Wrote a UI automation query/ge
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    Software Test Engineer
    Mantis Technology Group
    Nov 2007 - Aug 2008 (10 months)
    - Created automation, test plans, and test cases and executed the test cases both by writing automation and testing manually. - Automated end-to-end testing, from the UI level to the database level. - Created automation to do a visual verification that the current state of a site matches a baseline. - Contributed to the testing and design of a web-based controller/data reporting tool for automated testing. - Integrated the measurement of performance metrics into an existing test tool. - Trained new employees on our automation tool.
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    Game Tester
    Mantis Technology Group
    Jul 2007 - Oct 2007 (4 months)
    Black box testing, Test Plan development for Viva Pinata
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  • Fuller Theological Seminary
    master, Masters Of Divinity Theology
    Fuller Theological Seminary
    Jan 2004 - Jan 2007 (3 years 1 month)
  • Western Washington University
    bachelor, Bachelor of Science - BS Psychology
    Western Washington University
    Jan 2000 - Jan 2004 (4 years 1 month)
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