Thi M.

Senior Engineering Manager | Tech Career Coach | Leadership without Chaos: Empowering tech pros to become strategic leaders

Spain

About

With over 4 years of experience as an engineering manager, My leadership is focused on people leadership, strategic planning, and driving automation and team autonomy. My roles includes defining priorities, setting OKRs, managing cross-team alignment, and fostering agile practices to deliver impactful outcomes for our stakeholders. My work centers on empowering teams through strategic direction, mentoring, and agile methodologies to enhance productivity and achieve organizational goals. With expertise in Agile, SAFe, DevOps, and tools like Jira, Confluence, and Azure DevOps, I am dedicated to fostering scalable, efficient, and high-performing platforms.

Experience

  • Software Engineering Manager at LeoVegas Group
    Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

    At LeoVegas Group, I'm managing a talented team of backend engineers, driving the development and maintenance of various platform components. I collaborate closely with engineering stakeholders to define the product roadmap while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. My focus on people management ensured a positive work environment, enhancing team performance and collaboration.

  • Digital Transformation Consultant | Agile, Lean, Operational Excellence at TRMS.tech
    Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

    ● Facilitate Agile coaching and Scrum leadership to enhance team productivity. ● Manage full product lifecycle, from conception to delivery. ● Provide strategic consulting on technology initiatives and adaptation. ● Optimize team performance and adaptability to changing market conditions. Stack: Agile, SAFe, Scrum, Jira, Confluence, DevOps, Trello, Azure DevOps.

  • Engineering Manager, Digital Platforms at Lunik - Explorers at Work
    Sep 2024 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

    ● Lead the DevOps and IT Ops squad: Full people leadership—hiring, mentoring, performance reviews, and career development. ● Set strategic direction: Define priorities, OKRs, capacity planning, and cross-team alignment with the director and stakeholders; establish objectives, deliverables, and project scope for automation and reliability initiatives. ● Foster agile excellence: Oversee squad ceremonies, maintain roadmaps/backlogs, manage risk escalations, and drive continuous stakeholder feedback. ● Accelerated per-squad autonomy: Skipped a transitional phase to roll out dedicated scrums, on-call rotations, and clear service ownership from day one.

  • Agile Delivery Lead Consultant - Platform Teams - Contractor@SHELL BV at EPAM Systems
    Sep 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr

    ● Serve as Release Train Engineer (RTE) and Scrum Master for two key teams. ● Manage the energy sector's cross-functional teams (Dev, DevOps, Infrastructure, QA). ● Enhance team agility through continuous coaching and methodology refinement. ● Oversee high-quality software delivery within established deadlines, ensuring stakeholder alignment. Stack: Agile, SAFe, Scrum, DevOps, Azure DevOps, GitHub, PowerBI.

  • BAS World (Veghel, North Brabant, Netherlands · Hybrid)
    • Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering
      Oct 2022 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr

      ● Managed technology infrastructure and developer experience platforms, leading digital transformation and optimizing scalability and infrastructure costs. ● Implemented a cloud-first strategy, reducing infrastructure costs by 30% and enhancing platform scalability and availability. ● Led multi-region, multi-cloud Kubernetes environments, fostering partnerships that expanded organizational capabilities. Stack: Agile, OKR, Scrum, Jira, Confluence, DevOps, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes (K8S), Terraform, GitLab, PowerBI, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana.

    • Engineering Manager, Technical Platform [IDP, Cloud, Data, and Sec]
      Oct 2021 - Sep 2022 · 1 yr

      ● Led digital transformation and managed priorities for Identity & Access Management (IDP), Cloud, Data, and Security. ● Directed a team of 12 FTEs, overseeing the design, development, and administration of cloud infrastructure, developer experience platform, and data-oriented platforms. ● Aligned team goals with organizational objectives, driving digital transformation through OKRs, DevOps adoption, and software modernization. Stack: Agile, DevOps, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Docker, PowerBI, OKR, Scrum, Jira, Confluence, GitLab, Prometheus, Grafana.