Marcelo Soffredi
Director Of Engineering - Workforce Edge at Strategic Education, Inc
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMarcelo Soffredi is a seasoned engineering leader with over 25 years of experience building and scaling distributed teams and products across startups and large enterprises. Currently Director of Engineering at Strategic Education’s Workforce Edge, he blends hands-on technical judgment with pragmatic process improvements that have driven faster delivery and materially fewer defects. His background spans founding and growing engineering orgs, leading global remote teams, and delivering measurable outcomes—like 20% faster development and 40% fewer defects at RiskOptics and major cost and maintenance reductions at Gartner. Comfortable at the intersection of product, operations, and sales, he has a knack for translating business needs into architecture and team designs that reduce dependencies and accelerate time-to-market. Known for leading by doing, he emphasizes small iterative gains, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration to half churn and improve hiring effectiveness. Based in Austin, he combines entrepreneurial roots with enterprise-grade delivery discipline to help companies think big and execute reliably.
8 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Universidad Empresarial 'Siglo 21'
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (20)
sudoku9
puzzle7
react5
alarm4
arduino-library4
arduino3
serve2
dynamodb2
api2
aws-dynamodb1
mysql1
orm-library1
serverless1
rest-api1
database1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
msoffredi/ms-auth
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
RBAC authorization serverless microservice (AWS + NodeJS)
Contributions:101 PRs, 129 pushes in 1 month
rbac-authorizationauthorizationserverlessaws-lambdarbac
msoffredi/ArduinoOpenAlarm
May 2018 - Jul 2021
Arduino based alarm project
Contributions:3 releases, 72 PRs, 84 pushes in 3 years 2 months
alarmarduino-libraryarduino
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