Andre K. Boateng
Engineering Manager, Software Payments Platform
Atlanta, GA · (404) 555 0142 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/andrekboateng
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Twelve years in software, two managing a 14 engineer team and three as technical lead before that
INDUSTRIES
Financial technology, card payments, merchant services
SPECIALTIES
Delivery management, reliability, hiring, on call operations, technical roadmaps, cost control
SYSTEMS
Java and Kotlin, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Datadog, GitHub, Jira
CREDENTIALS
Certified Scrum Master, Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Chattahoochee State University
Executive Summary
Software engineering manager two years into leading a 14 engineer payments platform team at a 1,200 person financial technology company that processes about 9 billion dollars a year. Came up through ten years as a backend engineer and technical lead on the same platform. Runs hiring, on call, delivery and the reliability targets the business signs off on each quarter.
Signature Achievements
- Leads 14 engineers across two squads on a payments platform processing about 9 billion dollars a year with 99.99 percent availability for the last six quarters.
- Cut change failure rate from 11 percent to 3 percent by introducing progressive rollouts and a release checklist, tracked in Datadog.
- Shipped 41 production releases in 2025 on a two week cadence against a plan of 26 the year before.
- Reduced monthly cloud spend for the platform by 28 percent, about 45,000 dollars a month, through right sizing and reserved capacity.
- Hired nine engineers in 18 months with eight still on the team and cut time to first production change for new hires from six weeks to two.
- Brought pages per on call week from about 30 to under six by fixing the top alert sources one at a time.
Professional Experience
Engineering Manager, Payments Platform
Peachtree Ledger Technologies, Atlanta, GA April 2024 to present
1,200 person financial technology company; 14 engineers in two squads, a 3.2 million dollar team budget and about 9 billion dollars processed a year
- Manage 14 engineers through weekly one to one meetings, quarterly reviews, promotion cases and compensation planning.
- Own the quarterly roadmap for the payments platform with product management and report delivery to the vice president of engineering.
- Run the on call rotation, incident reviews and the reliability targets agreed with the business each quarter.
- Hire for the team, from writing the role to closing the offer, and run the interview loop.
- Manage a 3.2 million dollar budget covering salaries, contractors and cloud spend.
Technical Lead, Payments Platform
Peachtree Ledger Technologies, Atlanta, GA January 2021 to April 2024
Technical lead for a seven engineer squad on card authorization services
- Designed the authorization service rewrite that took peak throughput from 1,200 to 4,500 transactions a second.
- Led architecture reviews and code review standards for the squad.
- Coordinated a card network certification with the compliance team and passed on the first attempt.
Software Engineer
Sweetwater Commerce Software, Marietta, GA June 2014 to January 2021
Backend engineer at a 300 person retail software company
- Built order and inventory services in Java for retail customers.
- Migrated a monolith module to services running on Kubernetes.
- Carried on call for the order platform for four years.
Certifications and Training
Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance, certified 2019, renewed 2025
Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect, Associate, certified 2022
Engineering management program, internal leadership academy, completed 2024
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Chattahoochee State University, Atlanta, 2014
Core Skills
Engineering team leadership · Delivery planning · Reliability targets · Incident review · Hiring and interviewing · Budget management · Cloud cost control · Progressive rollouts · Roadmap negotiation · Performance reviews