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Senior Engineering Leadership

RON HARLEY

Senior Engineering Manager | Platform, Delivery, and Quality

I help SaaS organizations improve delivery predictability by modernizing CI/CD, strengthening quality automation, and scaling distributed engineering teams.

20+ Years In Engineering
12+ Years Leading Distributed Teams
~40% Defect Reduction

Leadership Approach

I run teams with explicit ownership, measurable outcomes, and fast feedback loops. The operating model emphasizes calm execution, predictable delivery, pragmatic quality standards, and close product-engineering alignment so strategy turns into shipped value without organizational drag.

Proof Of Impact

Engineering outcomes that compound across delivery, quality, and team velocity.

Ron Harley drives predictable execution and modern platform practices that turn engineering effort into measurable business throughput.

92%

Roadmap Commitment Reliability

Stabilized sprint execution and tighter planning by aligning platform work to roadmap outcomes.

4x

CI/CD Throughput

Modernized deployment workflows and reduced release friction across backend and internal tools.

-63%

Escaped Defects

Embedded test automation and contract checks to catch regressions earlier in delivery.

+31%

AI-Assisted Delivery Velocity

Applied AI workflows to accelerate test creation, engineering insights, and time-to-confidence.

Leadership impact: built cross-functional trust, coached senior ICs, and aligned platform investment to roadmap outcomes.

Core Competencies

Engineering Leadership & Team Development

Lead distributed teams through hiring, coaching, performance management, and promotion planning to build long-term organizational capacity.

Roadmap Planning & Delivery Execution

Partner with product and operations to prioritize roadmaps, improve delivery predictability, and sustain release cadence.

CI/CD Modernization & Quality Engineering

Embed quality gates, automation, and release controls into GitHub Actions-based pipelines to improve reliability.

Cloud, Automation, and AI Integration

Apply AWS-native platform patterns and AI-assisted workflows including test generation and LLM-powered engineering insights.

Technical Foundation

  • Python
  • Ruby
  • AWS
  • GitHub Actions
  • CI/CD
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • PostgreSQL
  • REST APIs
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • NextJS
  • Terraform
  • Playwright
  • Selenium

Education

Hampton University — Entrepreneurship (Undergraduate Studies)

What Makes Me Stand Out

Leadership Edge

Engineering leadership focused on scalable platform systems, interoperability, and modernization that increase organizational leverage, operational clarity, and long-term resilience.

Systemic Thinking

Treats engineering quality, release process, and team design as one operating system.

Calm Under Ambiguity

Stabilizes teams during org change while keeping delivery and quality standards high.

AI With Practical ROI

Applies AI where it measurably improves test creation, insights, and time-to-confidence.

Open to senior engineering leadership conversations
ron@ronharley.com 347.889.9451

Professional Experience

Sep 2021 - Present

Unite Us

Engineering Manager -> Senior Engineering Manager, Internal Platforms

Led distributed backend and internal platform teams for a multi-product healthcare SaaS organization. Currently manage 8 direct reports, drive roadmap planning with product and operations leaders, and led a configuration application plus GitHub Actions CI/CD modernization enabling weekly releases. Introduced Playwright automation and AI-assisted test generation, reducing production defects by ~40%, while leading hiring and career growth to Senior, Staff, and EM roles.

  • Internal Platforms
  • Release Management
  • AI-Assisted Testing
  • People Leadership

Apr 2020 - Sep 2021

Unite Us

Test Engineering Manager

Established the QA engineering function for backend platform teams, implemented CI-based automation strategy, and standardized testing frameworks across microservices, reducing production defects by ~40% and improving release confidence.

  • QA Strategy
  • Automation
  • CI Platforms

May 2019 - Aug 2019

Seafood Souq

Director of Software Quality Assurance

Directed QA strategy for a global B2B marketplace. Standardized automation and CI pipelines to improve release reliability and quality outcomes across teams.

  • Global B2B Marketplace
  • Quality Automation
  • Release Reliability
Earlier Roles (2002-2018)

Rentlytics (RealPage), Swimlane, YouEye, Carecloud, HUGE, and others.