Open To Work
Beau Kenny
Engineering Manager
Long Beach,US
Summary
Dynamic Engineering Manager with a proven track record at Branding Brand and Boot Barn, leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality e-commerce mobile apps for major brands. Expert in React Native and people leadership, I drive project success through strategic planning and continuous improvement, ensuring timely delivery while fostering talent and collaboration.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Manager (Mobile)
Boot Barn
03.2021 - Current
- Engineering Manager for mobile app built in React Native. Led development while coordinating across product/design/backend and vendors to keep delivery high quality.
- Assumed acting tech lead responsibilities while still operating as EM.
- Established engineering standards: code review expectations, regression prevention.
- Direct management of mobile engineering delivery for a React Native app while assuming acting tech lead responsibilities; coordinated across product, design, backend, and vendors to meet aggressive timelines.
- Established engineering standards-code review expectations and regression-prevention practices-and partnered with DevOps to improve build pipelines and CI/CD quality gates.
- Owned testing results and production triage: prioritized and resolved escalations with customer-success partners to reduce customer impact and restore service quickly.
- Drove delivery health by tracking cycle time, WIP, and velocity and implemented process changes to improve predictability and release quality.
Engineering Manager
Branding Brand
03.2019 - 04.2025
- Led ~12 direct reports (FTE + contractors) delivering multiple enterprise consumer e-commerce mobile apps across parallel workstreams.
- Partnered with product/design/client stakeholders to ship reliably in dependency-rich environments while balancing roadmap scope, quality, and deadlines.
- Client apps included multiple multi-billion dollar brands like Ralph Lauren and Madewell.
- Conducted regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations to grow talent and retain high performers.
- Owned end-to-end project delivery across parallel workstreams-scoping, planning, and shipping multiple enterprise consumer e-commerce mobile apps for major brands in dependency-rich environments.
- Partnered with product, design, and client stakeholders to clarify requirements, remove ambiguity, and make scoping decisions that kept teams moving and on schedule ensuring customer success.
- Built instrumentation and analytics using Firebase and GA4 to measure feature impact and KPIs; used data to prioritize work and improve release quality while managing projects with competing timelines.
General Manager / Chef
Milano's Ristorante
10.2005 - 03.2020
- Led a ~40-person operation in a high-pressure environment; built strong coaching habits, conflict resolution skills, and a customer-first mindset.
- This experience translates directly to engineering leadership: high accountability, operational rigor, and urgency without sacrificing quality.
Education
B.A. - Psychology & Computer Science
University of Mississippi
Oxford, MSCourse Completion - Full Stack Software Engineering
App Academy
San Francisco, CASkills
- React Native
- TypeScript
- People leadership
- Mobile delivery (iOS/Android)
- State management (Redux/Zustand)
- Hiring & mentoring
- React
- REST APIs
- JavaScript
- Reliability/performance
- CI/CD
- Firebase
- GA4
- Architecture & execution
- Cross-functional delivery
- Analytics & experimentation
- Vendor/3rd-party integrations
- Passkeys
- Mobile build/release (certs, provisioning, store submissions)
- OAuth PKCE concepts
- Product management
- DevOps
- Tooling
- Instrumentation & observability
- Agile/scrum
- Engineering design
- Continuous improvement
- Triage
- Project oversight
- Coaching and mentoring
- Project management
- Team building
- Architecture
- Performance updates
- Decision-making skills
Websites
Awards
App of the Month, Apple App Store
Work Preference
Job Search Status
Open to workWork Type
Full TimeContract WorkLocation Preference
RemoteSalary Range
$160000/yr - $200000/yrTimeline
Engineering Manager (Mobile)
Boot Barn
03.2021 - Current
Engineering Manager
Branding Brand
03.2019 - 04.2025
General Manager / Chef
Milano's Ristorante
10.2005 - 03.2020
B.A. - Psychology & Computer Science
University of Mississippi
Course Completion - Full Stack Software Engineering
App Academy