Brandon Wamboldt

Software Engineer

Maplewave•  September 2015 - Present

I was the Product Owner & Team Lead for the Paperless team (a digital document signing solution). As the product owner, it was my responsibility to gather requirements from customers (internal and external), anticipate possible requirements for future customers, and look at features offered by competitors to ensure we remained competitive. With these requirements, I identified and worked with key stakeholders to plan releases based on business and product priorities, which included the creation of project charters, project plans, stakeholder lists, risk assessment, and more. After releases are planned, I was responsible for running the release using the agile software methodology, breaking the project into two-week sprints. My team and I ran sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint planning, and backlog refinement meetings. I was also an active developer during the release, with my allocation dependent on managerial duties. As a senior developer, I helped plan technology decisions, for all products, to ensure we could meet future market needs and maintainability goals. I also helped form key technology policies on my team, and other teams, such as code review, code standards, automated testing, CI, and more. My team was the first to roll-out Jira, and I was involved in the Jira steering committee which deployed Jira company wide. My managerial duties included one-on-ones with my staff, interviewing for new team members, team lead meetings, project management meetings, product portfolio review meetings, and various other tasks. I had a varying number of direct reports between 1 and 6.