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Obie Quelland

Richmond,VA

Summary

Dynamic technology leader with a proven track record at Altigo, driving strategic transformations, and scaling engineering teams.

Expert in software engineering, cloud-native architectures, and DevOps processes.

Adept at fostering collaboration and innovation, leveraging skills in AI technology, automation software, and agile methodologies to deliver award-winning solutions across multiple industries.

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience

Work History

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER (CTO) / SEI DIRECTOR

Altigo
Richmond, Virginia
12.2016 - Current
  • Acquired by SEI in 2024.
  • Orchestrated the strategic technology transformation that directly contributed to Altigo's acquisition by SEI Investments Company, positioning the platform as the award-winning market leader in digital private alternative investments.
  • Pivoted the company from a B2C fintech product to a scalable, enterprise-grade B2B SaaS platform, unlocking new revenue channels, and expanding institutional adoption.
  • Oversaw budget planning to optimize technology investments and resources.
  • Built and scaled a multidisciplinary technology organization from 10 to 50 people.
  • Hired, managed, trained, and mentored the Engineering, Product, DevOps, Security, and QA teams.
  • Negotiated agreements with external partners, vendors, contractors, and consultants.
  • Conducted research on emerging AI technologies and industry trends for strategic initiatives.
    Led cross-functional teams to define AI product vision and strategy.
  • Continually evaluating current market offerings in the field of artificial intelligence engineering, and updating our SDLC accordingly.
  • Led the end-to-end technology integration strategy for all partner and vendor products and APIs
  • Optimized the codebase for improved scalability and efficiency of automated processes.
  • Drove end-to-end automation of the SDLC, achieving 99.999% uptime and full alignment with 12-Factor App principles and DORA to ensure resilience, portability, and continuous delivery.
  • Migrated our platform architecture from REST APIs to a GraphQL API framework, resulting in a 2x increase in developer velocity, and a significant decrease in defects.
  • Designed and implemented a proprietary Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) security framework to deliver fine-grained permissions across complex institutional hierarchies.
  • Architected a domain-specific, low-code framework for private securities onboarding and workflow automation, capturing 80% market share in the alts investment space.
  • Spearheaded the company's successful SOC 2 Type II certification

DIRECTOR, WEB TEAM

Elephant Insurance
Richmond, Virginia
08.2013 - 11.2016
  • Led the end-to-end development of all customer-facing B2C insurtech applications, third-party API integrations, data ingestion pipelines, and platform observability (logging, monitoring, alerting).
  • Recruited and scaled high-performing web engineering, DevOps, and QA teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
  • Defined and executed a three-year technology transformation roadmap, successfully transitioning the organization from legacy waterfall to agile methodologies across engineering and product.
  • Architected the modernization of the company's core platform—from a monolithic, on-premises .NET system to a cloud-native microservices architecture using Docker, Golang, and AngularJS on AWS.
  • Migrated data infrastructure from traditional RDBMS to a schemaless NoSQL architecture, enabling scalable storage of dynamic financial datasets, and enhancing data flexibility.
  • Designed and open-sourced a robust automated testing framework using Angular, Selenium Grid, and PostgreSQL, reducing regression cycles, and increasing test coverage across mission-critical workflows.
  • Implemented zero-downtime CI/CD pipelines, achieving daily production releases, and maintaining a 99.99% uptime SLA in a high-traffic, insurtech environment.
  • Developed real-time event streaming and analytics pipelines into Google BigQuery to support advanced data mining, KPI tracking, DLP enforcement, and performance observability.

SENIOR MANAGER, ONLINE SYSTEMS

Carmax
Richmond, Virginia
07.2012 - 07.2013
  • Directed software development, project delivery, release management, and career development for the Online Systems team, spanning CarMax.com, native Android/iOS apps, distributed search infrastructure, and payment and financing experiences.
  • Managed and scaled a high-performing team of 20+ engineers and contractors across multiple concurrent work streams, ensuring the timely delivery of consumer-facing features for millions of users.
  • Drove strategic road map planning across 1, 3, and 5-year horizons, aligning product development with broader digital transformation goals, and evolving customer behaviors.
  • Owned full budget responsibility for team operations, resource allocation, and vendor partnerships, ensuring delivery within cost constraints while optimizing ROI across technology initiatives.
  • Led agile transformation efforts by implementing lean-agile methodologies, continuous integration, automated deployments, and test-driven development practices.
  • Championed the adoption of IaaS and PaaS solutions, increasing platform flexibility, and accelerating time-to-market for mission-critical releases.
  • Established a metrics-driven engineering culture with a focus on system resilience, development velocity, and platform scalability across high-traffic digital assets.

SENIOR MANAGER, ARCHITECTURE TEAM

Capital One
Richmond, Virginia
06.2011 - 07.2012
  • Led DevOps strategy and execution for .NET banking app, including on-boarding, release automation, production monitoring, alerting, and disaster recovery planning.
  • Designed and implemented standardized life-cycle controls and deployment pipelines to support compliance, operational continuity, and observability at scale.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders across legal, audit, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams to ensure shared governance, risk management, and compliance alignment.
  • Developed comprehensive documentation and operational runbooks to support enterprise reliability goals and minimize time-to-resolution for critical incidents.
  • Supported a high-availability environment with rigorous uptime SLAs, integrating observability tooling to proactively manage performance and platform health.

(Prior to 2010)

Additional Experience
  • Manager, S&P Global.
  • Enterprise Architect, Live Nation.
  • Analyst, Accenture.

Education

B.S. - Business Administration w/ minor in Finance

University of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg, Virginia

M.S. - Mangagement Information Systems

University of Viginia
Charlottesville, Virginia

Skills

  • Front-end: React, Nextjs, Angular, Svelte, Ruby on Rails, ASPNET
  • Back-end: Nodejs, AWS Lambdas, Cloudflare Workers, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions, REST APIs, and GraphQL APIs
  • Databases: ClickHouse, Postgres, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, DynamoDB, MySQL, Neo4j, ElasticSearch, Redis, Qdrant, Vectorize
  • DevOps: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Cloudflare, Containerization, Github Actions, Datadog, Terraform, Serverless Framework
  • Programming Languages: Node/Typescript, Golang, Python, Ruby, C#, C, Rust

Personal Information

Titles: Chief Technology Officer / Director

Timeline

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER (CTO) / SEI DIRECTOR

Altigo
12.2016 - Current

DIRECTOR, WEB TEAM

Elephant Insurance
08.2013 - 11.2016

SENIOR MANAGER, ONLINE SYSTEMS

Carmax
07.2012 - 07.2013

SENIOR MANAGER, ARCHITECTURE TEAM

Capital One
06.2011 - 07.2012

(Prior to 2010)

Additional Experience

B.S. - Business Administration w/ minor in Finance

University of Mary Washington

M.S. - Mangagement Information Systems

University of Viginia
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