Jeff Rogers
Engineering Leader, Consultant, Small Business Owner, Entrepreneur
Chicago, Illinois
Summary
An executive leader in software engineering and product development with a strong focus on Engineering Operational Excellence, Development Operations, and Strategic Technical Direction. A deep background in agile software practices, working across a diverse range of industries, including healthcare, with companies from small startups to larger entrenched organizations. Expertise in holistic Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD), from ideation to delivery and support, via cross-functional team leadership and technical strategies that align with business objectives.
With roles such as Director of Engineering & Productivity at Pinger, Principal Owner at Atriumn Consulting, and significant positions at Tempus Labs, a leading healthcare technology company, Groupon, and others, a track record of high-quality product delivery and system compliance across various platforms.
Committed to recruiting, hiring, and building teams that foster cultures of stakeholder collaboration, technical excellence, and strategic vision. Product development should not just meet industry standards - it should exceed them, setting new benchmarks for quality, innovation, and healthcare technology advancement in the process. Passionate about leveraging technology to improve human well-being and create sustainable, high-impact solutions.
Experience
Principal Owner
Atriumn, LLC
2021 - Present
- •Advising early to mid-stage startups on high-quality continuous product delivery, resulting in safe but aggressive go-to-market strategies.
- •Designing systems with quality and DevOps as foundational principles, enabling clients to embrace risk through ownership and accountability.
- •Driving problem resolution and root cause identification, contributing to the development of resilient and anti-fragile systems.
- •Leveraging extensive AWS expertise to design and implement scalable, serverless architectures for clients, utilizing a wide range of services including Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito, Pinpoint, CloudWatch, Fargate, Route53, CloudFront, Amplify, and CDK.
- •Focusing on optimizing storage and compute resources to deliver cost-effective, high-performance solutions.
- •Prioritizing projects and innovations that demonstrate clear benefits to user well-being and long-term sustainability.
- •Shifted client teams’ quality mindset from reactive bug-fixing and blame culture toward proactive risk management and robust CI/CD practices, resulting in more reliable and faster software delivery.
- •Designed and implemented automation pipelines using GitHub Actions and CI/CD tooling, standardizing release processes and reducing manual intervention, boosting deployment frequency and stability.
Director of Engineering & Productivity
Pinger
2021 - 2024
- •Implemented and promoted accountability measures for customers and executive leadership on wide-ranging system operational, quality, and performance issues for three major mobile applications, across iOS, Android, Web, and backend API development.
- •Achieved high-quality experiences for Pinger's 100 million customers and thousands of business platforms through risk mitigation, productivity, and testing disciplines.
- •Built and managed internal intelligence and reporting tools to inform executive leadership decisions regarding quality, product schedules, and risk escalations.
- •Owned CI/CD pipelines, KPI transparency, and associated automation tooling for engineering teams across three continents, allowing for rapid product iteration. Implemented DORA metrics to measure and iterate.
- •Mentored and coached 100+ Product/Engineering team members and company leadership on innovative build and scrum practices via technical program initiatives, resulting in a culture of stakeholder collaboration to grow products together.
- •Implemented a comprehensive multi-platform CI/CD pipeline encompassing mobile apps and backend APIs, incorporating unit, integration, API, and end-to-end testing across devices and web. Improved development efficiency and effectiveness while ensuring broad test and device coverage.
- •Prioritized projects and innovations that demonstrated clear benefits to user well-being and long-term sustainability.
- •Utilized the SPACE framework to holistically assess and enhance developer productivity.
- •Established a disciplined release cadence with weekly shipping cycles and introduced incident-level escalation for any missed releases, significantly improving accountability and predictability.
- •Mentored junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and ownership, which contributed to improved team morale and accelerated professional growth.
Testing Lead / Head of Engineering Quality / Technology Practices Lead
Tempus Labs
2017 - 2021
- •Managed technology delivery practices and coding standards for over one million clinical diagnostic and analytical data products, ensuring compliance, quality, security, and rapid delivery in a startup environment.
- •Collaborated with architecture teams to refine platform direction, design, and procedures for testing, monitoring, and delivery, resulting in the development of high-quality and compliant systems.
- •Launched internal release management platform for 500+ production services, facilitating rapid iteration while upholding compliance. Introduced DORA metric philosophies to track and optimize.
- •Established and executed engineering processes that ensured compliance to medical device regulations, including HIPAA, SOC2, ISO 13485, and 21 CFR Part 11. Encompassing business requirements discovery, build, code review, verification, validation, and post-market monitoring.
- •Accountable to regulatory adherence across 300 engineers, designers, and product management staff, and 500+ production services.
- •Implemented a CI/CD pipeline enabling small, highly tested, and well-documented changes, resulting in rapid, high-quality, and compliant software delivery - a key market differentiator in the healthcare/biotech sector.
- •Oversaw a team responsible for managing large-scale AWS deployments, with a focus on optimizing storage and compute resources to support Tempus's data-intensive operations in the healthcare/biotech sector. Ensured infrastructure met stringent security and compliance requirements.
- •Fostered strong cross-functional relationships with auditors, scientists, and legal teams to balance strict regulatory compliance with the need for rapid development, resulting in a culture of compliant innovation.
- •Led engineering quality and compliance efforts that contributed to successful FDA approval and multiple regulatory audits, ensuring adherence to HIPAA, SOC2, ISO 13485, and 21 CFR Part 11 standards.
- •Managed the design and deployment of an internal release compliance and change management platform, streamlining release processes and strengthening audit readiness.
- •Implemented CI/CD pipelines that accelerated software delivery while maintaining rigorous quality and documentation standards critical for regulated healthcare environments.
Senior Director of Engineering
Basis / Centro
2014 - 2017
- •Pioneered development operations around requirements, testing, deployment/release, and system monitoring. Fostered a culture of shared development across ten teams of 100+ engineers, product managers, support, and stakeholders, resulting in customer-focused product management.
- •Enhanced compliance monitoring which contributed to notable improvements in customer satisfaction and maintained performance above industry standards through more effective KPI tracking and management.
- •Led the adoption of test automation best practices, resulting in more streamlined build/deploy/release cycles, increasing the frequency of deployments, allowing the team to embrace risk across projects simultaneously.
- •Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for large-scale microservices architectures, integrating unit testing, integration/contract/pact testing, and end-to-end client testing. Orchestrated complex pre-deployment processes to ensure system-wide quality and reliability.
- •Transformed development operations by embedding CI/CD, automation, and shift-left quality practices, elevating quality to a first-class consideration throughout the software lifecycle.
- •Implemented New Relic synthetic monitoring, enhancing proactive system health tracking and enabling rapid detection and resolution of production issues.
Director of Engineering
Angi
2013 - 2014
- •Spearheaded the deployment of agile, delivery, and quality processes across two major Engineering offices, shifting to a rapid delivery model, bringing new features to customers in a highly competitive industry.
- •Established trunk-based development processes, resulting in more frequent, high-quality product releases, delivering value to customers on a daily basis.
- •Consolidated feature and project planning tools into a single platform, resulting in efficiency and traceability in daily Product and Engineering work.
Senior Engineering Manager
Groupon
2010 - 2013
- •Guided 300+ engineers and SREs in product release validation and development productivity processes, enabling a culture of high ownership at a rapid growth e-commerce startup. Implemented feature flagging for validation and experimentation at scale.
- •Collaborated with global leaders to implement comprehensive quality strategies, integrating end-to-end full-stack testing and last mile processes within a microservice architecture, enhancing the efficiency of product delivery cycles and improved system reliability.
- •Promoted a culture of sane and frequent product deployment across international teams.
- •Facilitated user acceptance testing, along with internal testing of beta rollouts with 1000+ employees and friendly users to gather real-world feedback on production systems.
- •Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for large-scale microservices architectures, integrating unit testing, integration/contract/pact testing, and end-to-end client testing. Orchestrated complex pre-deployment processes to ensure system-wide quality and reliability.
- •Developed internal metrics dashboards to provide leadership with clear visibility into quality, release cadence, risk management, and change impact analysis, enabling data-driven decision making.
- •Led architectural improvements to minimize blast radius of changes, transitioning to microservices architecture complemented by automation and CI/CD pipelines, significantly improving release safety and velocity.
Head of North American Quality Practice / Lead Consultant
Thoughtworks
2000 - 2010
- •Led quality engineering capabilities for the company's North American Agile practice across 1000 consultants, resulting in consistency in deliverables, collaboration, and customer satisfaction.
- •Authored key practices that reduced the frequency of quality issues in company delivery engagements, thereby fostering a culture of collective responsibility for quality practices across all team levels.
- •Reduced cross-functional delivery and quality concerns across 100+ engagements by partnering with Compliance, Legal, and Staffing groups to set up teams for success, accountability, and quality of deliverables.
- •Worked on 25+ agile transformations as a team member and lead across the US, Europe, India, and Australia, implementing best practices and driving organizational change.
- •Led a global practice around testing, developing and sharing expertise across international teams.
- •Led global adoption of quality engineering best practices across North America and multiple international clients, driving consistency and elevating delivery standards.
- •Spearheaded numerous agile transformations, embedding quality and collaboration mindsets into teams spanning the US, Europe, India, and Australia.
Skills & Expertise
Leadership & Management
Operational Excellence
Engineering Leadership
Strategic Planning
Global Team Management
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Mentoring and Coaching
Cloud Technologies & Infrastructure
AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito, CloudFront, Fargate, Route53, CloudWatch, Amplify)
Terraform
GCP (Firebase, Supabase)
Serverless Architecture
CI/CD Pipelines
DevOps Automation
MCP Integration
Large Language Models & AI
OpenAI GPT
Anthropic Claude
Llama
Google Gemini
AI-Powered Automation
Test Automation & Quality
Selenium
Playwright
Cypress
SauceLabs
Appium
Programming & Development
Go
Next.js
Typescript
React / React Native
Node.js
Python
Ruby on Rails
Swift
Architecture & Systems Design
Microservices Architecture
Data Mesh
Data Products
Anti-Fragile System Design
A/B Testing
Quality & Process Management
Shift-left Testing
Beta Testing
Last-mile Testing
BDD
TDD
QMS
Defect Tracking
Test Case Management
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Agile & Program Management
Scrum
Kanban
Lean
Product Roadmap Management
Program and Project Management
Continuous Improvement
Stakeholder Management
Release Management
Compliance & Risk Management
HIPAA
SOC2
ISO 13485
21 CFR Part 11
Risk Mitigation
Root Cause Analysis
Incident and Change Management
Key Ventures
Idynic
Founder and sole developer of a general-purpose identity synthesis and curation SaaS and mobile app focused on personalized career and professional profiles. Nearing launch with features that enable users to build, curate, and tailor professional identities leveraging AI-driven synthesis.
- •Founded and developed AI-powered SaaS/mobile app as sole developer.
- •Designed product roadmap, UX flows, and backend services.
- •Integrated advanced LLM models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Llama).
- •Nearing public launch with beta user feedback.
Atriumn Platform Services
Lead architect and consultant delivering cloud-native platform services and automation solutions to early- and mid-stage startups, emphasizing AWS serverless and dev productivity.
- •Designed and implemented AWS serverless architectures using Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito, CloudFront, and Terraform.
- •Advised startups on cloud architecture, DevOps automation, and cost optimization.
- •Built internal tools leveraging LLMs to boost engineering productivity and automate issue tracking.
- •Delivered secure, compliant, and maintainable cloud infrastructure solutions.
Ultimate Ninjas Academy
Owner and operator of a children's ninja warrior summer camp business focused on physical development and team-building activities for ages 4-8.
- •Created age-appropriate curriculum with team-building and physical skill activities.
- •Managed business operations including marketing, registration, and customer relations.
- •Grew local community engagement and repeat participation year-over-year.
Relii.ai
Co-founder and developer of a contact management platform aimed at improving communication efficiency and relationship tracking.
- •Designed and built core features for relationship tracking and follow-up reminders.
- •Collaborated on user research and feature prioritization.
- •Implemented cloud backend integrations and ensured smooth deployment.
Education
Miami University
Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems