NATHAN REID

Technical Project Manager

Contact

Seattle, WA

nathan.reid@email.com

(555) 016-8294

linkedin.com/in/nathanreid-tpm

github.com/nathanreid

Skills

Agile, Scrum

Kanban

SAFe

SDLC Management

Sprint Planning

Backlog Grooming

Capacity Planning

Release Train Engineering

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Jan 2013 - Dec 2017

University of Washington

Certifications

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Jan, 2023

Project Management Institute (PMI)

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)

Jan, 2021

Scrum Alliance

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Jan, 2022

Amazon Web Services

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

Jan, 2024

Project Management Institute (PMI)

Summary

Technical Project Manager with 7+ years of experience directing complex software engineering, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure initiatives. Former software engineer with a strong technical background in microservices, API integrations, and cloud architectures (AWS/Azure). Adept at bridging the gap between product strategy, executive stakeholders, and engineering squads. Proven track record of managing multi-team technical programs ($8M+), cutting delivery cycle times by 32%, and delivering high-concurrency systems with 99.99% availability.

Work experience

Senior Technical Project Manager

May 2022 - Present

Synapse Cloud Systems

Location: Seattle, WA

Lead 3 distributed engineering squads (24 engineers, QA, and DevOps) delivering an enterprise-scale distributed data processing platform processing 50M+ daily events
Coordinated the architectural migration of a legacy monolithic billing system to an event-driven microservices architecture on AWS (EKS, Kafka, RDS), reducing system latency by 40% and infrastructure overhead by $180,000 annually
Partnered with Principal Engineers to establish architectural RFC standards, dependency matrices, and API contracts, cutting cross-team blocking dependencies by 45%
Implemented standardized sprint cadences and automated velocity tracking in Jira and Linear, improving sprint predictability and on-time milestone delivery from 72% to 94%
Drove the technical rollout of a unified observability stack (Datadog & OpenTelemetry), enabling automated incident triage and reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) by 38%
Managed cross-functional risk matrices and mitigation plans across security, legal, and compliance teams to ensure strict adherence to SOC 2 and GDPR guidelines prior to launch

Software Engineer -> Technical Lead

Jul 2017 - Jul 2019

Vector Interactive

Location: Portland, OR

Built scalable RESTful backend services using Node.js, Express, and PostgreSQL, supporting 200K+ daily active users
Transitioned into technical coordination and release management, facilitating sprint demos, managing GitHub repositories, and guiding 4 junior engineers on code hygiene and design patterns

Projects

Multi-Region Zero-Downtime Cloud Migration

Jan 2022 - Dec 2023

Role: Technical Project Manager / Lead

Directed the phased migration of 12 critical customer-facing services across AWS regions with zero downtime
Established rollback runbooks, traffic-shifting canary releases, and end-to-end load testing using Locust and k6