Director of Software Engineering

I build software, and the teams that build software. The whole arc, test intern to engineering director, documented live on this site.

Luis Rodriguez, in a light blue shirt, photographed in a glass office corridor

The five-second
version.

I'm an engineering director who builds high-performing software teams: hire well, be candid, measure flow, and keep the scoreboard simple enough that the team always knows if it's winning.

who
Director of Software Engineering at a national fintech
domain
Engineering leadership: delivery, flow metrics, team health
scale
Runs loan-servicing engineering at BHG Financial: ~25 engineers plus ~30 offshore contractors; previously a 52-person org through a public-cloud migration

Intern to director,
one commit at a time.

  1. Software Test Intern February 2009
  2. Quality Assurance August 2009
  3. Software Engineer June 2011
  4. Team Lead March 2015
  5. Manager of Software Engineering April 2016
  6. Senior Manager of Software Engineering December 2018
  7. Director of Software Engineering May 2021 → now
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