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§ 01 — Stephen Verble · Engineering Manager

MMXXVI · Portfolio

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Software leadership for high-trust product teams. I lead teams that ship full-stack product software, improve developer workflows, reduce delivery friction, and adopt AI responsibly across the SDLC.

Practising

Full-stack delivery · AI-native SDLC · Engineering coaching · Production ownership

Begin

§ 02 — Operating principles

A management posture, written down before it's asked.

  1. 01

    Trust over theatrics.

    Product judgment, production care, and clear ownership show up before novelty.

  2. 02

    AI as a managed capability.

    Agentic workflows are framed by standards, review gates, traceable context, and team learning.

  3. 03

    Execution with leverage.

    The emphasis is on systems that make good engineering easier to repeat.

§ 03 — Signal

Three credentials worth confirming before the call.

01

Full-stack

Product Delivery

Led delivery across React frontends, .NET APIs, SQL-backed workflows, and operational support.

02

AI-native

SDLC Enablement

Built repeatable AI-assisted workflows for tickets, pull requests, QA, production triage, and team learning.

03

Coaching

Engineering Leadership

Developed engineers toward senior-level ownership through clear expectations, feedback loops, and technical judgment.

§ 04 — Case work

Three pieces of evidence. Open whichever the question is about.

Also on record

§ 05 — Range

Deep enough to manage the tradeoffs. Broad enough to improve the system.

Domains

  • Fintech
  • Wealth management
  • Developer productivity
  • Product engineering
  • Production operations
  • AI-native SDLC adoption

Leadership

  • Engineering management
  • Technical coaching
  • Senior engineer development
  • Delivery planning
  • Cross-functional alignment
  • Incident follow-up

AI-Native SDLC

  • Agent instructions
  • Prompt libraries
  • Workflow design
  • AI-assisted code review
  • QA workflow automation
  • Responsible adoption

Technical

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • .NET APIs
  • SQL
  • Observability
  • System design
  • Production remediation

Working vocabulary

React and TypeScript product interfaces · .NET API and service development · SQL-backed product workflows and operational reporting · Observability, production triage, and remediation planning · AI-assisted delivery workflows across Jira, GitHub, QA, and CI · React · Next.js · TypeScript · .NET · SQL · Jira · GitHub · CI/CD · Observability tools · AI coding agents.

§ 06 — Artifacts

Working assets, not portfolio theater.

  1. 01 / planned

    .NET upgrade agent

    A concept for reading repository context, identifying upgrade steps, and producing reviewable implementation plans for .NET modernization.

    Form

    Agent workflow

  2. 02 / in-progress

    Jira ticket reviewer workflow

    A reusable review flow for checking problem clarity, scope, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and test implications before build starts.

    Form

    SDLC workflow

  3. 03 / complete

    Observability dashboard PRD

    A sanitized product requirements outline for making production health signals more actionable for engineering teams.

    Form

    Product artifact

Further reading

§ 07 — Conversation

If the proof lands, the conversation is short.

Primary

Elsewhere

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