Introducing Glenn Keighley
Background
Glenn is a product focused Engineering Leader with 20+ years in software engineering, scaling high-growth startup engineering teams and building resilient platforms. He is an expert in software architecture, product management and cross-functional leadership.
Adept at aligning technical initiatives with business goals, fostering collaboration, and driving innovation Glenn is an excellent communicator, skilled in mentoring teams and delivering impactful, scalable solutions.
Service Offerings & Consultancy
Don’t Get Left Behind In The AI Race
Safe and effective adoption of AI throughout the company
AI is here and companies that are not already leveraging it to drive operational efficiency, accelerate product development or deliver intelligent products that users and their agents demand are already ripe for disruption. Staff utilizing unsanctioned AI tooling (‘Shadow AI’) risk corporate intellectual property and create business risk. With the right strategy and guidance your company can learn to use AI – before it’s used against you.
I will guide you into becoming an AI-first organization
Accelerate Product Delivery
Fast delivery requires sustainable engineering
Growing organizations frequently utilize delivery processes that check the boxes but don’t drive actual results. Development effort starts to become disconnected from product delivery and revenue growth. Foundational architectural debt, invisible during early growth, is now affecting quality and pace. Product and engineering leaders are aligned in principle but disconnected in practice creating ambiguity, missed expectations, and mounting delivery risk.
I will diagnose your delivery blockers and rebuild your momentum
Scale Headcount Without Losing Culture
Operational maturity for growing engineering organizations
As your engineering team grows beyond initial product-market fit organizational scale becomes a limiting factor. Hiring must increase but identifying, attracting and retaining top engineering talent stalls in the face of compensation constraints, unclear career paths and a culture that can feel chaotic. Leadership struggles to keep up as founders or early engineers, lacking proper structures and experience, flail in managing growing teams.
I can help you establish structure without losing your company's soul
Make Your Architecture Ready For What Comes Next
Build the infrastructure that supports growth, not slows It
As you move beyond early traction, technology decisions made for speed now constrain scale. Infrastructure supporting a handful of customers now requires uptime SLAs, regional redundancy and continuous delivery. Systems lacking observability become fragile under production load. Data volumes grow and platform cohesion deteriorates. Shadow pipelines, inconsistent schemas and unmaintained documentation create friction across engineering, analytics, and AI initiatives. Compliance and security practices, often deferred during early growth, now become revenue-blocking emergencies.
I will identify your hidden risks and enable you to build with confidence
Scale Customers, Not Headcount
Integrated Operations for a unified, scalable business
As organizations grow, actions to scale the business introduce headcount rather than leverage, increasing fixed costs and complexity without proportional gains in output. Software and product teams become disconnected from internal operations of the company, leading to redundant systems, conflicting definitions of key entities and a shattered view across the business. Attempts to adopt automation or AI tooling are reactive or narrowly scoped yielding fragile solutions that do not scale with volume or organizational complexity.
I will help you unify your systems to scale smarter
When Everything Breaks
Fast recovery from when the worst thing happens
Bad things happen to good companies. When systems are failing and the engineering team needs direction… When you need to preserve customer trust and the business needs clarity there’s a narrow window of time to fix what is broken while that remains possible. You need to prioritize ruthlessly and hard decisions are called for to stem the bleeding and restore confidence in the viability of the business and trust in the company.
I can help you stabilize your engineering teams and your business in times of crisis
Domain Expertise
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