Rodo Abad is a Senior Product Manager and experienced software engineer with 13 years building front-end platforms and developer experience at scale, currently formalizing Frontend Operations at John Deere. He blends hands-on engineering chops—leading component libraries, CI/CD improvements and dramatic UX/DX speedups—with product leadership that prioritizes human-centered team culture and measurable OKRs. Rodo has driven significant performance gains (e.g., Time To Interactive cut from ~30s to 8s and build times from over an hour to under 10 minutes) while scaling platform practices across enterprise portfolios. Known for mentoring engineers, fostering code-review culture, and pragmatic tooling, he often acts as architect, product owner, and coach in the same sprint. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he pairs a tester’s mindset (Did it pass locally?) with a developer-first mission to make frontend engineering smoother and safer for large organizations.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Colorado Mesa University
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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Rodo Abad - Senior Product Manager, Div Ops at John Deere