Summary
Wade Armstrong is a Senior Engineering Manager in Los Angeles with a decade of experience building and rescuing high-scale, cloud-native teams and products. He has led delivery of SaaS and ETL systems serving millions of daily users, cut incident rates by 90% through quality and automation initiatives, and increased team velocity by 30% while improving retention and diversity. Technically hands-on across the stack—client-side JavaScript, server-side JavaScript, PHP, Go, CDNs like Cloudflare/CloudFront, and AWS—he frequently contributes significant sprint effort while coaching teams. He combines startup grit as a co-founder and consultant with enterprise rigor from roles at AMC Networks, Synacor, and Nativo, and brings a practical MBA-backed approach to aligning engineering, product, and operations. An unassuming builder who jokes about not always coding, he’s known for making complex systems reliably measurable and fast.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Codesmith
MBA, MBA at USC Marshall School of Business
BA Political Science Psychology, BA Political Science Psychology at Pomona College
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Yiddish