Bryan Halter

📈 WHAT I DO I am an analytical, innovative, and disciplined research and development (R&D) leader with 20+ years of experience modernizing processes and increasing engineering team efficiency via digitization and automation at startups to F500 firms. I am a technical expert in AWS services, leveraging product design, web development, security, scrum, and leadership skills to deliver 99.99% uptime using cloud native implementation. I deploy tech platforms to observe insights to grow software development predictability and sustainability. I grow global teams from eight to 100+ engineers across backend, data, UX, and UI design specialties. 💎 WHAT SETS ME APART FROM OTHERS ★ Leadership: I rally, inspire, and motivate talent around business problems, leading to technical solutions that have broad business impact while improving performance via team building and coaching. ★ Critical Analysis: I establish tools to gather data-driven insights in problem-solving that unlock 80% of resolution needed to quickly develop POCs to get early traction and buy-in to final solution. ★ Operational Excellence: I increase efficiency and velocity through automation and continuous improvement activities. 🏆 ACHIEVEMENTS ★ Reduced risk and elevated reputation by blending regulatory stakeholder requirements with Engineering capabilities in highly regulated environment for JP Morgan Chase (JPMC) globally. ★ Saved one day of developer productivity, equivalent of 40K people days, while increasing predictability by leveraging data-driven insights to identify and adopt best practices across teams as Managing Director at JPMC. ★ Led VMware modernization, delivering platform features worth $500M+ in customer retention value at F100 firms as Engineering Director while replatforming vReliaze Automation from on-premise to SaaS. ★ Drove technology modernization for 50+ applications in SDLC platform scope, prioritizing investment and build vs buy decisions as Executive then Managing Director at JPMC. ★ Guided and matured three startups to acquisitions and repeatedly grew junior teams into high-performing talent, blending technology and people leadership to increase revenue and customer retention. 🔥 WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT ME ★ Active listener ★ Nothing is off the table ★ Constantly problem-solving ★ Great collaborator ★ Quickly gain buy-in to visions and unorthodox solutions ★ Easily navigate uncertainty ⭐ MY CORE COMPETENCIES Software Engineering | Platform Development | Automation | Developer Tools | Program Management | Organizational Operations | Change Management