Senior Software Development Manager
Allocate
Allocate is a platform that helps family offices and RIAs discover, access, and manage private market opportunities through investment curation, portfolio tracking, and custom solutions.
- Directly managed and coached a team of engineers (up to 6) embedded across multiple product teams, focused on performance, growth, and day-to-day execution.
- Built an internal platform pulling data from GitLab to track cycle time, defects, and throughput, giving real visibility into how teams are performing. Team throughput has more than doubled with no meaningful increase in defects, even as cycle time held steady despite tickets growing larger and spanning both frontend and backend.
- Built an AI tool that drafts performance summaries for engineers, making feedback more consistent and cutting prep time for 1:1s and reviews.
- Rebuilt our on-call and support model to cut down on interruptions during active sprint work.
- Leading the org-wide push to adopt AI dev tools like Claude and Cursor to speed up iteration.
- Building chatbot tools to handle common support requests so engineers don't have to.
- Led a lending-focused team as technical lead within our Money Movement org, delivering the Increase integration and onboarding clients from a strategic acquisition on an aggressive timeline.
- Leading hiring for key engineering roles. Also mentor across teams, including onboarding contractors and helping senior engineers take on more ownership.
- Give leadership a clear, regular read on engineering performance so they can plan and prioritize with real data.