Eliminating Technical Debt

The problem:

Keas had achieved product market fit as an employee engagement and benefits management platform, and had started to land multiple tier one clients but growing technical debt was creating risk to the business.

Kyle’s Approach:

Rapidly build out an appropriately scaled team
- Worked closely with leadership to identify multiple paths forward with different blends of onshore and offshore resources.
- Presented the plan to BOD and got approval.
- Scaled Engineering from 3.5 people to 24 across Development, QA, DevOps and security.
- Identified and mentored engineering members to step up to leadership roles making a stronger team and retaining key contributors.
Re Architected to create a more robust platform to support growth
- API-enabled existing backend services as well as developed new services.
- Moved the team to a standard UI framework based on Angular, bootstrap, Ionic to create a mobile web experience as well as applications in both Apple and Google stores.
- Added a data warehouse that allowed advanced segmentation and targeting.
- Added trackable devices and additional gamification mechanisms to drive usage.

Outcome:

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“Kyle was a manager that many software engineers only dream about. He has a knack for challenging me by asking right questions that not only helped him to understand my technological approach, but to ensure that my proposals were fully thought out and comprehensible to others. He is a champion of agile, test driven software development, taking the pragmatic approach, and achieving concord between business and engineering teams.”

George Feil,
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“Kyle came to Keas at the time of total disarray and brought the leadership experience needed for the company. As soon Kyle joined he started directing the team towards new product initiatives, at the same time multiplying the number of engineers strategically by using offshore resources. I learned a lot from his leadership style…”

Archana Singh,
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