Abou Koné

I am an experienced Engineering Manager focused on helping my teams and direct reports achieve operational efficiencies by ensuring teams are delivering with a high level of quality, accuracy and reliability. I have over 15 years of experience in web and enterprise application development in various domains and industries, from productivity recently to cybersecurity and government with 3+ years of software engineering management experience. In my day to day now, my primary role is to provide strong technical vision for my teams and ensure consistent delivery on objectives. I am accountable to ensure there is a balance between product and engineering to ensure that features/stories are not overly prescriptive based on stakeholders requirements. Another one of my critical responsibilities is to deliver implementation options to allow stakeholders to make a better, more informed decision on product priorities. I love to be proactive in identifying causes, solutions, mitigation plans to address teams quality and reliability issues. Over my career, I've built up experience formulating a team's technical strategy and roadmap and collaborated and partnered effectively with several other teams to execute on shared goals. This experience includes building products, and I have successfully taken significant enhancements and features from inception to production. I am a strong proponent of Agile software methodologies, such as Scrum, and engineering principles such as Test Driven Development. However, shipping quality software is hard, so I have also learned along the way and understand fully how to balance tactical needs with strategic growth and quality-based initiatives that can span multiple quarters. The ideal role for me would be one where I will be responsible for the hands-on leading and directing of end-to-end project initiatives and teams in tactical and strategic capacities.