Nancy Felix
35 years of engineering management experience specializing in scaling technical teams, auditing architectures, and modernizing legacy codebases.
Operating focus
Industry experience
Oil and gas · Healthcare · B2B · B2C · Manufacturing
Company stages
Series A · Growth
Operating regions
North America · India
Languages
English · French
Executive statement
Organizational Scale - Large-scale team orchestration: Managed 15 concurrent engineering teams composed of Software, Database, Principal, and QA Engineers. Direct leadership span - Held direct reporting structures overseeing multiple engineering managers and up to 7 direct executive reports. Global footprint coordination - Directed high-performing technical initiatives across both onshore and offshore international locations. Architectural decision making - Decided on Domain driven architecture and new tech stacks. Implemented best engineering practices for engineering teams. Financial & Business Scale- Revenue enablement - Directed end-to-end engineering lifecycles for CRM and telephony software powering $100M in annual revenue. Enterprise scale - Led core software development units for elite global brands, including Amazon's Trade-In and Previously Owned business divisions. Fiscal responsibility- Governed large-scale corporate budget allocations in direct alignment with executive finance departments. Technical Debt and Product Evolution - Found complex legacy environments requiring architectural updates to sustain company growth. Handled the pressure of maintaining zero-downtime operations for highly regulated health systems. Managed home-grown tools that became bottlenecks for geographic expansion and market agility. Operational and Cultural Friction - Handled unstructured software delivery models lacking standard product tracking, release planning, or testing. Managed cross-functional communication gaps between software engineering teams and product, finance, or PMO stakeholders. Governed vendor dependencies and complex software license matrices during hyper-growth or corporate restructures.
Leadership scope
Guild Head of Software Engineering | Technology Leader June 2024 - Present (2 years 3 months)Denver, CO Amazon Head of Engineering- Amazon Devices Development October 2021 - April 2026 (4 years 7 months) Denver Metropolitan Area ANGI Homeservices Vice President Of Software Development February 2019 - October 2021 (2 years 9 months) Denver, Colorado, United States DaVita Kidney Care Director of Software Development April 2011 - January 2019 (7 years 10 months) Sun Microsystems Engineering Manager January 2004 - March 2011 (7 years 3 months)
Selected outcomes
- Implemented a migration to Google Cloud reducing our data center costs by 20 million.
- Replaced an inhouse telecommunications software tool with Five reducing customer down time by 40% and improving customer satisfaction (NPS) by 15%.
- Migrated to a domain driven architecture, reduced number of microservices from 51 to 9 reducing infrastructure cost by 10 million.
- Reduced number of tools used by org saving the org $7 million.
- Implemented AI as part of oncall, increasing our productivity of oncall by 80%.
- Implemented AI as part of engineering making the teams 90% more productive.
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