Teddy Cooley

Teddy Cooley

I turn enterprise complexity into delivered outcomes.

Product Manager · Ally Financial — ten years across risk, infrastructure, observability, product & platform.

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01 Signal

Most technologists go deep in one lane. I went wide — and that's the point. I've sat in the risk seat, the infrastructure seat, the observability seat, the product seat, and now the platform leadership seat. So when a complex initiative stalls between the business and the build, I'm the one who translates it and ships it.

Not the deepest specialist in any single tool — the rare operator who speaks every layer, de-risks the messy middle, and gets enterprise work across the line.

M.S. Information Systems · Indiana University, Kelley School of Business

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02 Operating Range

I've worked every layer between the business and the platform.

Five seats across the enterprise stack. The throughline is delivery — and the ability to translate between worlds that rarely speak the same language.

Platform

Product Manager · Ally

Designed and built the enterprise CDP in Snowflake — leading cross-functional data mapping, customer model architecture, and scalable integration.

Product

Data Product Owner · Ally

Owned roadmap, backlog, and sprint execution — turning business asks into shipped data products.

Observability

Business/Project Analyst · Ally

Gave IT Operations eyes — monitoring that caught failures before customers ever felt them.

Infrastructure

Business/Project Analyst · Ally

Ran the unglamorous engine of enterprise change — cutovers, decommissions, and migrations that nobody noticed because nothing broke.

Risk & Governance

Sr. IT Risk Consultant · EY

Started in audit — automating controls testing and learning how enterprise risk actually works.

03 Proof
01 · data_products
100s
Data products delivered
legacy analytics retired, modern decisions unblocked
02 · apps_monitored
60+
Apps wired into Splunk ITSI
outages predicted before customers felt them
03 · db_migrated
1,000s
Database instances migrated
decades of technical debt taken off the books
04 · audit_time_cut
90%
Audit testing time cut
RPA controls testing replacing manual review
04 What I Do

Where I'm useful

01

Delivery Execution

Roadmaps, backlogs, and sprint execution that actually ship. I move initiatives from stuck to delivered across teams and dependencies.

02

Modernization

Retiring legacy systems and migrating to modern platforms — off-prem to cloud, manual to automated, brittle to resilient.

03

Operations & Resiliency

Production support, deployment coordination, and observability. Turning reactive firefighting into predictable, monitored operations.

04

Business–Tech Translation

The connective layer between stakeholders and engineers. I make sure the thing that gets built is the thing the business actually needed.

05

Team Leadership

Hiring, mentoring, and aligning cross-functional teams. Building the people-system that makes the technical system durable.

06 Beyond the Enterprise
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SOLO-BUILT · iOS & ANDROID

Trash Talk

Roast your friends when their team chokes.

An AI sports app I designed, built, and shipped solo — end to end. It pulls live NFL, NBA, and MLB games and, the moment a friend's team starts choking, generates a custom roast you can fire straight into the group chat. The same range that ships enterprise platforms, pointed at a product of my own.

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07 Path

Ten years, five seats

2025 — Present

Platform

Product Manager

Ally Financial

Designed and built an enterprise-scale CDP in Snowflake. Leading cross-functional data mapping, customer model architecture, and scalable integration supporting Customer 360, analytics, and compliance.

2023 — 2025

Platform

Data Engineering Manager

Ally Financial

Led the data engineering team through Ally's Snowflake modernization — production incident triage, data quality assurance with Splunk and anomaly detection, and retiring on-prem repositories.

2021 — 2023

Product

Data Product Owner

Ally Financial

Owned the Scrum board, backlog, and roadmap for the Snowflake data product portfolio. Designed the customer data model behind journey analysis and cross-sell.

2018 — 2021

Observability

Business/Project Analyst

Ally Financial

Wired Ally's critical applications into Splunk ITSI for proactive monitoring, directed the legacy infrastructure refresh, and kept a heavy weekly change calendar moving without breaking things.

2015 — 2017

Risk & Governance

Senior IT Risk Consultant

Ernst & Young

Developed RPA software that automated IT change management testing. Led IT risk assessments with offshore teams — first lessons in how big enterprises actually break.

08 How I Operate

Principles

01

Range is the moat

Specialists optimize their lane. Operators connect the lanes. The hardest enterprise problems live in the gaps between teams — that's where I work best.

02

Ship the outcome, not the output

A dashboard nobody uses isn't delivery. I measure success by the decision made, the cost retired, the risk removed — not the ticket closed.

03

Build the team, then the platform

Technical systems are only as resilient as the people behind them. Durable platforms come from durable teams — so I invest in people first.

09 Toolkit
SnowflakeDBTAWSSplunkGitLabJiraPowerBIServiceNowSQLPythonClaude Code