Cody J. Boillot MBA · CSM
Technical Program Manager · Engineering Leader · AI Builder · Coach
I run complex, multi-team programs and ship the products myself, then turn junior engineers into leaders along the way.
A builder who leads, and a leader who ships.
I'm a technical program and engineering leader with 15+ years driving complex, multi-team initiatives from concept to delivery. I run concurrent programs across infrastructure, platforms, AI, and engineering operations, setting measurable metrics, reporting risk and progress to leadership, and clearing roadblocks so teams can move. I'm also a hands-on builder: I founded a revenue-producing, AI-agent-powered SaaS CRM and architected multiple internal platforms now used daily across a 40+ person engineering org. What I'm proudest of is the people side. I personally hired, coached, and graduated 60+ junior engineers into fully independent contributors, reshaping culture around learning, ownership, and knowledge-sharing.
Where I've made an impact
- Designed, engineered, and launched a revenue-producing SaaS CRM platform powered by autonomous AI agents, architecting the full stack from data model to agent orchestration and taking it from concept to a live, paying product.
- Owned the entire lifecycle: infrastructure, integrations, deployment, go-to-market, and customer onboarding, proving end-to-end delivery of a scalable commercial product.
- Lead delivery of multiple concurrent technology programs across a 40+ person engineering organization, owning schedule, budget, resourcing, and quality from initiation through closure, and reporting progress, milestones, and risk to executive leadership.
- Designed and ran a structured training and development program that took 60+ engineers from onboarding to full independence on permanent product teams, achieving 90%+ retention, including a gamified learning platform built to target and close individual skill gaps.
- Led a vendor consolidation initiative replacing multiple suppliers with a single platform, negotiating contracts and managing the transition to deliver $5M+ in annual savings with zero disruption to operations.
- Coordinate internal teams, contractors, and vendor partners as the primary liaison between engineering and business stakeholders, driving change management and adoption of new tools and workflows.
- Architected and shipped a suite of internal platforms (below) in daily use across the organization, spanning AI app-building, deployment automation, project delivery, and training.
- Founded a weekly TED-style speaker series (Tech Talks) that reshaped culture around education and knowledge-sharing across the org.
- Led delivery across 3 teams for large-scale platforms serving thousands of users, coordinating cross-functional dependencies, sprint ceremonies, and delivery against cost and schedule targets in a compliance-driven public-sector environment.
- Improved operational reliability and release predictability by 35% through process improvements and structured accountability.
- Hired directly by the client following contract-to-hire conversion, continuing to deliver enterprise applications and automated business workflows in a regulated financial-services environment.
- Served as Scrum Master, coaching teams on Agile best practices and consistent delivery cycles.
- Delivered software for a regulated financial-services client inside Cognizant's onshore delivery model, building enterprise applications to client quality standards and coordinating with distributed delivery teams.
- Passed the contractor test: converted to full-time client employee at Sallie Mae's request, a proven, verifiable record of reliability, performance, and client trust in the contract delivery model.
- Managed site-level operations and built training programs that measurably accelerated team productivity and engagement across multiple business units and locations.
- Deployed multiple times across two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, leading airmen in active war-zone operations; responsible for training, safety, performance, and morale under sustained pressure.
- Completed Airman Leadership School. Held Top Secret/SCI clearance (now expired; readily renewable).
Platforms that solve real problems
A selection of internal platforms I conceived, built, and launched, each adopted into daily use to remove friction and unlock the team.
AI app-generation platform
An internal AI-powered platform that lets engineers and non-engineers spin up working applications from natural-language prompts, bringing rapid prototyping in-house and removing dependence on external low-code vendors.
Self-service deployment platform
A self-service system that lets users stand up applications on AWS behind company SSO with a custom URL, turning a manual, engineering-gated process into a few-click workflow and dramatically shortening time-to-launch.
Gamified engineer training platform
A gamified learning platform that helps engineers target and close individual skill gaps using badges and achievements, central to the program that graduated 60+ junior engineers into independent contributors.
Streamlined project-delivery platform
A simpler, faster, more usable alternative to heavyweight project tools for managing development work, launched on AWS serving 100+ daily users, with service standards and adoption metrics defined from scratch.
Broadcast operations portal
A unified portal giving users access to every station across a large media broadcaster: market info, endpoints, schedules, and personnel, including a live module to view what each station is broadcasting in real time.
Weekly internal speaker series
A TED-style talk series where volunteers present on a topic of their choice, building a culture of education and knowledge-sharing while developing presentation and public-speaking skills across the org.
LoPro: an AI-agent-powered CRM shipped to paying customers
A revenue-producing SaaS CRM built end to end and powered by autonomous AI agents, taken from concept to a live, paying product. Full stack ownership from data model and agent orchestration to infrastructure, deployment, and customer onboarding.
CoEngine: a 3D game engine built from scratch
A real-time 3D engine written from the ground up in C++ and rendered in the browser through WebGL and WebGPU, designed and shipped in a single day by directing a team of AI coding agents. No game framework, no off-the-shelf engine, agentic development applied to hard, low-level systems work.
Skills & technologies
Program & Delivery
Platforms & Infrastructure
AI & Agents
People & Analytics
Credentials
Let's build something that ships.
Open to technical program management and engineering leadership roles. The fastest way to reach me is email or LinkedIn.