Eddie Gallagher

Innovation-Focused Engineering Leader
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Career Profile

Global engineering leader with 20+ years of experience driving innovation in high-volume apps in teams across six countries and eight time zones.

Influences product vision, develops engineering strategies, and connects experiences to deliver top-tier, continuously shippable apps.

Cultivates collaborative cultures to advance engineering in individuals, organizations, and global brands.

Career Profile

Global engineering leader with 20+ years of experience driving innovation in high-volume apps in teams across six countries and eight time zones.

Influences product vision, develops engineering strategies, and connects experiences to deliver top-tier, continuously shippable apps.

Cultivates collaborative cultures to advance engineering in individuals, organizations, and global brands.

Work Overview

Accomplishments

Below are some major points of pride. I believe a happy workforce translates to incredible outcomes for the associate, firm, and customer.

95 NPS

Associate’s Manager Satisfaction

84 NPS

Organizational Satisfaction

38M+    

Active Users Serviced     

9

Successful New Product Launches    

4.9

App Store rating with 9.5K reviews

$4.4M

Saved per year via delivery automation

3 mos

Saved per install in coordination

>90%

IR accuracy w/ ML & NLP

Development Technologies
I am extremely proficient in all of these technologies, but the truth is that there is always new development trends emerging on these platforms. Below is an honest representation understanding there is always more to know!
HTML, CSS, JavaScript
SPA Frameworks–Angular, Vue, React
CSS Prepprocessors–Sass, Less
Node.JS–Express.js, Nest.js
GraphQL–Apollo
Git SCM–GitHub, Bitbucket
Mobile–Native, Hybrid
Cloud–AWS, GCP, Azure
Containerization–Docker, Kubernetes
Creative–Adobe CC, Figma
Engineering Acumen
Leaders require a vast toolkit. These are highlighted skills that I am exceptional in performing.
  • Responsible AI
  • Engineering Excellence
  • Architectural Strategy
  • Technology Roadmaps
  • DevOps CI/CD
  • Rapid Prototyping
Leadership Skills
Leaders require a vast toolkit. These are highlighted skills that I am exceptional in performing.
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Technology Governance
  • Talent Growth
  • Continuous Learning
  • Executive Communication
  • Developer Advocacy

Experience

Edgy Media

Co-Founder
April 2024 - Present
Software development and consulting agency targeting SDLC modernization, immersive media, and digital experiences.
  • SDLC Modernization
  • Responsible AI consulting
  • Hyper-personalization using agentive AI
  • Immersive and AR experiences
  • IP protection from AI scrapers

Fidelity Investments

VP of Software Engineering
December 2021 - July 2024
Engineering leader in digital experience, platform engineering, and developer experience teams for Fidelity’s new connected healthcare advocacy platform, designed to help users make informed healthcare decisions in real-time
  • Top 5% in manager effectiveness
  • Coaching team of 160 across 5 products
  • Converting 42 RESTful services to GraphQL
  • Building A11y tool winning MSFTs ~$950m AUA
  • Releases from one month to undemand
  • Managing experience and DevOps teams

Director of Software Engineering
March 2019 - December 2021
Establishing engineering practice for a newly found business unit–Fidelity Healthcare Group, where new agile methodologies, infrastructure, and digital experience (mobile and web) needed to be established from the ground up.
  • Coaching team of twenty engineers
  • Adding 100 headcount in 1.5 years
  • Developing learning programs to up skill staff
  • Creating roadmap to transform dev
  • Negotiating $2.4m SaaS contract for release mgmt

Director of Software Engineering
December 2017 - March 2019
Player-Coach of 24 engineers across multiple products including Platform Innovation, Cash/Card Management, and Security Center in the retail investment space.
  • Maintaining apps reaching 14k peak TPS
  • 38.7M active users

Pendo.io

Senior Front-end Engineer
September 2017 - December 2017
Member of team responsible in developing the guides creation experience for customers to create onboarding experiences in their existing applications to highlight new products and features.

Fidelity Investments

SWE → Principal SWE
January 2013 - September 2017
Full-stack Engineering Lead on Portfolio Summary and the Fidelity Go Robo-Advisor.
  • Introducing Node.JS (v0.10.26) infrastructure
  • Developing first SPA at Fidelity

Insight Global

Contract Front-end Developer
March 2012 - January 2013
Perform development as a front-end engineer contracted to Fidelity Investments–focusing on content management feature development.

Freelance Web Developer

May 2004 - March 2012
UI/UX design, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript to provide enterprise solutions for all levels of business intelligence and client interaction.

Professional Development & Education

Managing Innovation

MIT & Harvard Business Scool
2024
Instructor-led course facilitated by Fidelity Investments conducted by MIT to help executives manage innovation by providing incremental approaches to lead change.

Aspire to Lead

LeadvantEDGE
2022
Eleven-week professional development program to help managers understand biases and experience of underrepresented groups to bring equitable outcomes to all.

Secure Application Development

OWASP
2015
Focused on development processes for secure-by-design SSDLC–covering SAST, DAST, and IAST testing practices to alleviate risk from bad actors.

BS in Business Administration

North Carolina State University
2007
Focus Areas: Integrated Marketing Communications and Finance.
Member: American Advertising Federation

Activities

LaunchDarkly Executive Customer Advisory Board Member

2023
A group of key stakeholders who worked closely with LaunchDarkly’s top executives, product team, and design leaders to help shape the vision and direction of new features aimed at enhancing its enterprise capabilities.

Microsoft/GitHub Inclusive Language Board Participant

2019
Industry stakeholders along with product teams from Microsoft and GitHub to discuss and decide on the best terminology for managing Git repositories and access control systems.