Amberly Rowles-Lawson
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Summary
An empathetic leader who prioritizes strong team dynamics to promote performance and reliability. Passionate about automation, processes, efficiency and creating impactful solutions.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
VP of Engineering
Infinia ML an Aspirion company
2020.02 - Current
- Lead the Engineering organization in architecting, developing, and maintaining a cloud-native SaaS platform with a focus on stability, scalability, security, and seamless external integration
- Created and maintained hiring processes, job ladders and frequent feedback loops enabling the ongoing growth of a highly performant and collaborative team
- Nurture strong partnerships between organizations to uphold alignment, manage expectations, and facilitate efficient communication regarding deliverables and roadmaps
- Create policies and mitigate risks related to technology, security, and regulatory compliance to protect the organization's assets and reputation
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement by promoting experimentation, learning, and adaptation to enhance processes and outcomes, bolstered by robust deployment, monitoring, and quality assurance protocols
- Cultivate and manage relationships with external vendors and partners as needed to support company-wide initiatives and deliverables
- Work closely with end clients to understand their unique business problems and distill feedback into prioritized requirements and maintain realistic expectations.
Software Development Manager
Cisco
2019.05 - 2020.01
- Managed team developing a new cloud native firewall while prioritizing quality and simplicity
- Developed cross team automated CI/CD workflows to increase efficiency
- Brought together multiple testing teams to create a unified testing strategy.
Automation Lead
Cisco
2016.12 - 2019.05
- Lead a team to create automated testing coverage from scratch for two firewall products
- Implemented a CI/CD workflow to simplify contributions from external teams
- Created over 200 parallel testing pipelines running hundreds of tests to validate important customer scenarios and use-cases.
Testing Engineer
Cisco
2014.02 - 2016.12
- Developed an internal web application to enable automated testing and track quality
- Created a Python based automation framework to automate running testing scripts.
Education
Masters of Science - Computer Science
William & Mary
12.2013
Bachelor of Science - Astronomy & Astrophysics
Florida Institute of Technology
12.2011
Skills
- Software Development (Python, JS)
- Mentoring and Coaching
- Cloud Infrastructure (AWS & Azure)
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Monitoring (DataDog, ELK Stack)
- CI/CD (GIT, Helm)
- Agile Methodologies
- Stakeholder Communication
Timeline
VP of Engineering
Infinia ML an Aspirion company
2020.02 - Current
Software Development Manager
Cisco
2019.05 - 2020.01
Automation Lead
Cisco
2016.12 - 2019.05
Testing Engineer
Cisco
2014.02 - 2016.12
Masters of Science - Computer Science
William & Mary
Bachelor of Science - Astronomy & Astrophysics
Florida Institute of Technology
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