Damilola Elegbede
Engineering Manager
Building high-performance organizations that deliver enterprise-scale solutions
Ex-VerilyEx-QualcommMBA + MS CS
Open to Engineering Manager, Senior Engineering Manager roles
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Experience
Verily Life Sciences
Engineering Manager - Cloud Infrastructure & Developer Experience
Sep 2022 - Nov 2024 • Boulder, CO
- ›Architected and executed enterprise-wide GCP cloud transformation supporting 30+ production systems, enabling successful launches of L'Oréal LDP and T1D healthcare platforms while establishing multi-cloud (AWS/GCP) capabilities.
- ›Built Cloud Infrastructure and developer experience functions from ground up, hiring and scaling to 13 engineers across 4 req cycles; promoted 3 ICs to senior roles, achieved 93% retention with multiple internal transfers to my org.
- ›Drove platform efficiency initiatives reducing GitHub Actions usage by 30% and establishing self-service infrastructure capabilities, improving developer velocity across 400+ engineers.
Qualcomm Technologies
Engineer, Senior Staff/Manager
Oct 2019 - Jul 2022 • Boulder, CO
- ›Transformed customer support operations from reactive to proactive model, reducing critical issue resolution time by 75% while scaling to support 400+ customer deployments globally.
- ›Created self-service 5G training platform replacing quarterly live sessions, enabling 24/7 customer enablement across global time zones and reducing training operational costs by 60%.
- ›Led data-driven performance optimization using Splunk analytics, identifying and resolving signal-to-noise ratio issues across 40+ customer sites, directly improving chipset performance metrics.
Qualcomm Technologies
Engineer, Staff/Manager
Oct 2014 - Oct 2019 • Boulder, CO
- ›Delivered 6 major 4G feature releases annually while maintaining 99.9% platform stability, directly supporting Qualcomm's telecom infrastructure revenue stream.
- ›Implemented CI/CD transformation reducing build times by 87% (4 hours to 30 minutes), improving productivity for 100+ engineers and accelerating feature delivery.
- ›Led Agile transformation achieving 40% productivity improvement, implementing Scrum for development teams and Kanban for customer support operations.
Skills Assessment
Expert
- Cross-Functional Leadership
- Technical Strategy
- Executive Stakeholder Management
- Multi-Site Team Leadership
- Agile/Scrum/Kanban
- Organizational Transformation
- CI/CD Pipeline Design
- Jenkins
Proficient
- GCP
- Kubernetes/GKE
- Terraform
- Platform Engineering
- Distributed Systems
- SRE Principles
- Telecom Systems (5G/4G/3G)
- Python
Familiar
- AWS
- SQL
- YAML
Education
MBA
University of Colorado, Leeds School of Business
MS Computer Science
University of Colorado Boulder
BS Electrical & Computer Engineering / Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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