About

Leo Mendoza is an accomplished Director of Engineering Management at Qatalog, a company that he is currently working for. He has over 16 years of relevant experience in the field of web and software engineering. Leo has a proven track record of delivering multiple multi-million-pound initiatives across web, mobile web, and Android. Prior to his current role, Leo worked as a Software Development Manager at Amazon. During his tenure, he was responsible for the subscription sign-up and transactional video purchasing experience for web, mobile web, Android, iOS, and FireTV. He grew a cross-functional team from 3 engineers to 11 and focused on delivery for key Prime Video initiatives, operational excellence, and creating/improving SDLC processes. Leo was also responsible for coaching, mentoring, recruitment, career growth, 1 year and 3-year visions for the team, stakeholder management (internal, external, and senior leadership). Leo has extensive experience in recruitment by participating in a multitude of interviews across engineering and product functions, and serving as both a panel speaker for new recruits and the sole team representative during job fairs. He has created, implemented, and guided career development plans for his reports, resulting in 2 promotions during his time at Amazon. Leo streamlined the SDLC for a team of 8 engineers, enabling delivery of over 40 initiatives in a single calendar year, with no attrition and job satisfaction ratings exceeding Amazon median. Leo has also worked as the Head of Software Development at What's the Big Picture? where he was responsible for establishing and controlling development practices, processes, and standards for the newly created in-house development team. He introduced Agile methodologies and software development methodologies to business teams that had limited exposure to SDLC. Leo worked routinely with the product team to refine their needs into actionable feature specifications. He oversaw the migration from third-party email hosting to cloud MS Exchange and assisted with migration from Linode hosting to full AWS stack. Leo worked within the PHP codebase daily developing features and fixes in multiple languages and helped to modernize the product. Leo holds a BS degree in E-Commerce from DePaul University, which he completed in 2002. He has a strong tech stack that includes Web, Software Engineer, Android, Mobile, iOS, AWS, and PHP. Leo is a skilled professional with a proven ability to lead and deliver complex projects.