Reza Karegaran

Experience

1. 2025 – now
   Slalom Senior Director, Market Solutions

   • Go-to-market for the software, cloud, data & AI practice; supporting clients across the Pacific Southwest.
2. 2024 – 2025
   AMN Healthcare Senior Director, Software Engineering

   • Led engineering for Language Services: virtual and in-person interpretation platforms.
3. 2023
   Turnberry Solutions Engineering & Product Practices Consultant

   • Digital transformation for the capital-finance division of a top farm-equipment company.
   • Introduced product and engineering practices; ran Agile training; coached Scrum Masters and PMs.
   • Built and led a cross-functional digital product team.
4. 2021 – 2023
   Best Buy Director, Software Engineering — Consumer Health

   • Engineering lead for an all-new ecommerce health offering.
   • Team from zero to 2 engineering managers + 10 engineers in under 6 months.
   • Shipped research-study MVP in record time.
5. 2019 – 2022
   Best Buy Health (GreatCall) Director, Software Engineering

   • Product engineering for Lively — devices and apps that help seniors live independently.
   • Shipped Lively Mobile+, Flip 2, and Smart 3 (our highest-rated product, 4+ stars); launched Lively on Apple Watch.
   • Championed OKRs; matured product management practice.
6. 2014 – 2019
   AutoAnything CTO · Director, Software Engineering · Enterprise Architect & Product Owner

   • Accountable for engineering, product, and design behind a site serving millions of visitors a month.
   • Monolith → domain-driven microservices → cloud-first; build-and-deploy automation, continuous delivery.
   • Near-real-time data lakes on BigQuery so anyone could answer their own questions.
   • Reorganized into product-domain teams; org-wide OKR planning; "Three C's" career framework.
7. 2013 – 2014
   WineAccess VP of Technology

   • Re-platformed ecommerce on Magento Enterprise + AWS; built two-way .NET replication to legacy systems.
8. 2012 – 2013
   Moody's Analytics Director, Sr. Software Architect

   • Globally distributed team behind Moodys.com and CreditEdge (credit-risk analytics SaaS).
   • Architected next-gen CreditEdge platform; beta in under 12 months. Stood up incident management.
9. 2004 – 2012
   AutoAnything Sr. Manager, Software Development · Lead Engineer · Engineer

   • Architected next-gen ecommerce platform on a distributed, message-based service architecture.
   • +40% site performance → measurable lift in conversion.
   • Built the order management and fulfillment system: 10k+ orders, invoices, and shipments a day.
10. 2000 – 2004
    Einstein Industries Web Developer

    • 1,000+ client sites. Drove the move to standards-compliant XHTML/CSS; order-of-magnitude faster design team.

Education

1. University of California, Irvine

Elsewhere

• linkedin.com/in/rezacentral
• github.com/rkaregaran
• x.com/rezacentral

Bookshelf

Leadership

Radical Candor · Start with Why · Multipliers · The Effective Executive · Measure What Matters · A Seat at the Table

Teams & culture

Principles · Powerful · Creativity, Inc. · It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work · Good to Great

Decisions

Thinking, Fast and Slow · Factfulness · The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Wellness

12 Rules for Life · Peace Is Every Step