Marcus J. Delgado

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Engineering Manager with 11 years in software development and 5 years leading cross-functional teams of 8–18 engineers across fintech and SaaS platforms. Specializes in scaling distributed systems, reducing time-to-deploy, and building engineering cultures that retain senior talent. Drove a 34% reduction in production incidents and cut average feature delivery cycle from 22 days to 9 days at Vantara Financial.

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Engineering Manager, Platform EngineeringMar 2021 - Present

Vantara Financial, Austin, TX

Led a 14-engineer team across backend, infrastructure, and SRE functions, delivering a microservices migration that reduced p99 API latency by 41% and supported a 3× increase in transaction volume without additional headcount.
Defined and enforced an OKR-aligned roadmap that shipped 6 platform capabilities in 12 months, directly enabling $4.2M in new enterprise contract signings by the sales team.
Reduced engineering attrition from 28% to 9% over 18 months by introducing structured career ladders, bi-weekly 1:1 frameworks, and a quarterly internal mobility program.

Senior Software Engineer → Engineering LeadJun 2017 - Feb 2021

Orbis Labs, Denver, CO

Grew from IC to informal team lead within 18 months; formally managed a 6-person squad delivering a real-time analytics pipeline processing 800M events per day with 99.97% uptime.
Championed adoption of trunk-based development and automated integration testing, cutting regression bugs in production by 55% and reducing QA cycle time from 11 days to 3 days.
Partnered with Product and Design to rewrite sprint planning ceremonies, improving predictability so that 87% of sprint commitments were met on time versus a prior baseline of 51%.

Software Engineer IIAug 2014 - May 2017

Stackform Inc., Chicago, IL

Designed and shipped a multi-tenant billing module in Ruby on Rails that processed $120M in annual recurring revenue and reduced billing error rate from 4.1% to 0.3%.
Mentored 3 junior engineers through structured code-review practices, two of whom were promoted to Software Engineer III within 14 months.
Optimized PostgreSQL query plans across the core reporting service, reducing dashboard load times by 68% and eliminating a recurring SLA breach that had cost the company $80K in credits annually.

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