Summary
Neil Ahrendt is an engineering manager with 15+ years of hands-on software experience and over seven years leading teams to scale SaaS platforms reliably. He transitioned from full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript engineering into leadership roles where he’s overseen architecture, DevOps, QA, and release management with a strong focus on DORA metrics and measurable outcomes. Neil has scaled organizations from 10 to 30+ engineers across six global teams, led a monolith-to-service-oriented architecture migration, and built CI/CD pipelines that cut release cycles from weeks to hours while maintaining SOC II Type 2 compliance. He excels at building autonomous teams, aligning Product, Design, and Customer Success around a unified roadmap, and staying technically involved to remove blockers. Based in Indianapolis, he blends startup agility with enterprise-grade processes and a track record of guiding companies through acquisition and post-merger integration.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Graphics Technology Computer Science C&IT Entrepreneurship and Innovation, BS Computer Graphics Technology Computer Science C&IT Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Purdue University