Teddy Cooley

Teddy Cooley

I turn enterprise complexity into delivered outcomes.

Data Engineering 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

Data Engineering Manager · Ally

Leads the team modernizing the data platform — moving dozens of TB off-prem to Snowflake.

Product

Data Product Manager · Ally

Delivered 100s of data products and built the customer data platform from roadmap to release.

Observability

Business Analyst · Ally

Integrated 60 applications into Splunk ITSI — turning reactive firefighting into prediction.

Infrastructure

Project Analyst · Ally

Migrated 1,000s of database instances and ran 25+ configuration changes every week.

Risk & Governance

Sr. IT Risk Consultant · EY

Built RPA controls testing that cut audit testing time by 90%.

03 Proof
01 · data_products
100s
Data products delivered
modernizing customer & compliance analytics
02 · apps_integrated
60+
Enterprise apps integrated
unified into predictive monitoring
03 · db_migrated
1,000s
Database instances migrated
across every environment
04 · servers_built
100s
App & DB servers built
for enterprise infrastructure refresh
04 What I Do

How I create value

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

Career timeline

2023 — Present

Platform

Data Engineering Manager

Ally Financial

Leading data engineering team with agile scrum. Snowflake platform modernization, data quality assurance, decommissioning dozens of TB of on-prem repositories.

2021 — 2023

Product

Data Product Manager

Ally Financial

Delivered hundreds of Snowflake data products. Designed the customer data platform for journey analysis and cross-sell. Owned roadmap, backlog, and sprint execution.

2019 — 2021

Infrastructure

Project Analyst

Ally Financial

Infrastructure operations at scale. Provisioned and migrated 1,000s of DB instances. Managed 25+ weekly system configuration changes. Retired legacy tech debt.

2018 — 2019

Observability

Business Analyst

Ally Financial

Integrated 60 applications into Splunk ITSI for proactive monitoring. Oracle DB upgrades. PowerBI dashboards for scope tracking and stakeholder reporting.

2015 — 2017

Risk & Governance

Senior IT Risk Consultant

Ernst & Young

Developed RPA software to automate IT change management testing, reducing testing time by 90%. Led IT risk assessments with offshore teams.

08 How I Operate

Operating 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.

Tools I work in

SnowflakeDBTAWSSplunkGitLabJiraPowerBIServiceNowSQLPythonClaude Code