Senior Engineering Leadership
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.
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
Ron Harley drives predictable execution and modern platform practices that turn engineering effort into measurable business throughput.
Stabilized sprint execution and tighter planning by aligning platform work to roadmap outcomes.
Modernized deployment workflows and reduced release friction across backend and internal tools.
Embedded test automation and contract checks to catch regressions earlier in delivery.
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
Lead distributed teams through hiring, coaching, performance management, and promotion planning to build long-term organizational capacity.
Partner with product and operations to prioritize roadmaps, improve delivery predictability, and sustain release cadence.
Embed quality gates, automation, and release controls into GitHub Actions-based pipelines to improve reliability.
Apply AWS-native platform patterns and AI-assisted workflows including test generation and LLM-powered engineering insights.
Technical Foundation
Education
Hampton University — Entrepreneurship (Undergraduate Studies)
What Makes Me Stand Out
Engineering leadership focused on scalable platform systems, interoperability, and modernization that increase organizational leverage, operational clarity, and long-term resilience.
Treats engineering quality, release process, and team design as one operating system.
Stabilizes teams during org change while keeping delivery and quality standards high.
Applies AI where it measurably improves test creation, insights, and time-to-confidence.
Professional Experience
Sep 2021 - Present
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.
Apr 2020 - Sep 2021
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.
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Directed QA strategy for a global B2B marketplace. Standardized automation and CI pipelines to improve release reliability and quality outcomes across teams.
Rentlytics (RealPage), Swimlane, YouEye, Carecloud, HUGE, and others.