# Ben Stiefel > Scaled engineering teams multiple times. Helping orgs go from chaos to high performance. Location: Millbrae, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/benstiefel I am passionate about fostering a culture of continuous improvement, inclusivity, and innovation within engineering teams. I've been leading teams from startup chaos to scale-up discipline—and back again. I've seen what breaks, what scales, and what's actually worth building. I grow engineering teams that ship consistently without burning out, balance roadmaps that serve the business without drowning in debt, and make the hard calls that let everyone sleep at night. I've learned what actually matters: delivering world class products with teams who want to stay. Reach out - I'm available for advisory, fractional, or full-time leadership. ## Work Experience ### Founding Engineer @ Field Technologies LLC (FTL) Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA Spinning up the software side of FTL, helping make technicians and operators lives easier. If only you had a check engine light for your building's systems, and you didn't have to create an emergency work order, how great would life be? ### Technical Advisory Board @ Planeo Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Director of Engineering @ Sydecar Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States Forged the technical vision and roadmap for a VC-backed Fintech startup, spearheading product development, platform engineering, and R&D initiatives. Championed and delivered our inaugural SOC2 Type 2 certification, transforming security posture from minimal awareness to audit-ready in 12 months. Scaled the Engineering organization from 10 to 25 staff with 95% retention, established core delivery processes and strategic alignment with Product and Design, reducing project timelines by over 50% while maintaining bug rate below 5%. Spearheaded the launch of two new products and major platform improvements, driving revenue growth that doubled company performance. Led execution of strategic OKRs, maturing engineering and cross-functional capabilities to support rapid scaling and enhanced customer experience. ### Director Of Engineering @ Measurabl Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 Measurabl, a venture backed startup, is the world’s fastest growing sustainability software. Our data management platform makes it easy for more than 13 billion square feet of commercial property across 70 countries to measure, manage and rate ESG performance. • Led initiatives to increase ARR of our core application, went from $9M to $15.5M and was the only product line in the company to surpass growth goals. • Reduced Cycle Time for engineering from over 50 hours to below 10, across all teams. Monthly deployments went from 1 per 2 weeks up to over 1 per day. • Managed the company’s core SaaS application, scaling the division from 2 to 6 product focused teams, managing 3 Engineering Managers. Hired 28 employees over 6 months. Built effective engineering teams using a value centric approach focused on trust and high performance. • During my tenure as Director, I have had zero attrition and maintained the highest approval rating of any manager in the company, and significantly above national average. Using Culture Amp, over 3 years my minimum favorable score was 84%, US average is 74%. • Collaborated with senior Engineering leadership to establish mature practices such as Operations Duty, feature ownership, outsourcing vendor policies, engineering driven feature processes and more. Coached team leadership to drive consistency and predictability in delivery and release reliable, observable software. • Defined and implemented strategic initiatives across Engineering and other departments to position company to grow sales opportunities globally and into new market segments. Worked with counterparts in Product and other Engineering divisions to align teams with the company's strategic goals. ### Senior Engineering Manager @ Measurabl Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Diego, California, United States • Responsible for leadership of an engineering team of 7 as well as a manager of another feature development team. Key responsibilities included mentorship, project management, driving team engagement, team performance, and maintaining best practices. • Focused both on individuals’ career development and team alignment. Initiated and maintained goal tracking (OKR) processes across the engineering department. Tracked team engagement via semi-annual surveys and maintained an overall favorable engagement score of 84% with no negative engagement scores, compared to national average of 73%. • Worked with VP of Engineering and CTO to steer organizational change; led transformation from Waterfall to Agile and Scrum framework. Improved speed of release from once every 2 weeks to on demand deployments. • Led cross functional teams using Angular, Ruby on Rails, Java, and multiple databases. ### Development Manager @ Measurabl Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater San Diego Area • Facilitated and coordinated inter-team resourcing to align the department with business goals; managed hiring initiatives, standardized advancement levels, and organized teams for success. • Grew front end team from 2 to 6 engineers. Helped advance 4 developers across the technical stack from Junior to Level 2, Level 2 to Senior, Senior to Manager, and from Senior to Systems Architect. • Organized team to document and maintain best practices; implemented quality gates (using Sonar Cloud), grew unit test coverage from under 17% to over 44%. • Spearhead and manage Engineering Driven Features, such as upgrading the application from AngularJS to modern Angular. ### Sr. Software Engineer @ Measurabl Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater San Diego Area ### Front End Manager, Software Engineering @ ByteCubed Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Greater San Diego Area Main responsibilities included project technical leadership across multiple technology stacks from front end to back end development centered on user experience and implementing UI designs. Managed a team of developers on multiple projects, focusing on team and individual growth in experience and education. ### Software Consultant @ KPMG US Jan 2008 – Jan 2015 Mainly responsible for services development on .Net and Java stacks, integration & front end work involving most recently HTML and CSS with Javascript, MVC. Experience developing with Silverlight, WPF, Freemarker templates and Android development. ### Web Developer @ G1440 Inc. Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 Developed middle tier data transfer application between back office services and proprietary front office solution ### Web Developer @ Bally Total Fitness Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 Developed public facing and internal web applications, co-administered webmaster emails, helped develop interviewing tool. Responsible for maintenance and development of internal payroll management system for sub contractors (personal trainers). ### Developer @ Artifact Software Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 Developed internal software as well as worked on integrating pieces of this software with external software such as Microsoft's ImagineCup 2004 website. ### Web Application Developer @ e.magination, llc. Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 As a junior member of the staff, I developed many web applications for clients using ASP, SQL Server, and Javascript, among other technologies. Learned consulting and development skills from senior developers. ## Education ### Anthropology University of Southern California ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kheiligh - Website: http://www.nobsleadershipguide.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/benstiefel JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/benstiefel/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05