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, VirginiaM.S. - Mangagement Information Systems
University of Viginia
Charlottesville, VirginiaSkills
- 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