Teddy Cooley
I turn enterprise complexity into delivered outcomes.
Ten years operating every layer between the business and the platform — risk, infrastructure, observability, product, and delivery.
Currently Data Engineering Manager @ Ally Financial · open to senior delivery, product-ops & platform leadership roles
Most technologists go deep in one lane. I went wide — and that's the point. I've sat in the risk seat, the infrastructure seat, the observability seat, the product seat, and now the platform leadership seat. So when a complex initiative stalls between the business and the build, I'm the one who translates it and ships it.
Not the deepest specialist in any single tool — the rare operator who speaks every layer, de-risks the messy middle, and gets enterprise work across the line.
M.S. Information Systems · Indiana University, Kelley School of Business
I've worked every layer between the business and the platform.
Five seats across the enterprise stack. The throughline is delivery — and the ability to translate between worlds that rarely speak the same language.
Platform
Data Engineering Manager · AllyLeads the team modernizing the data platform — moving dozens of TB off-prem to Snowflake.
Product
Data Product Manager · AllyDelivered 100s of data products and built the customer data platform from roadmap to release.
Observability
Business Analyst · AllyIntegrated 60 applications into Splunk ITSI — turning reactive firefighting into prediction.
Infrastructure
Project Analyst · AllyMigrated 1,000s of database instances and ran 25+ configuration changes every week.
Risk & Governance
Sr. IT Risk Consultant · EYBuilt RPA controls testing that cut audit testing time by 90%.
How I create value
Delivery Execution
Roadmaps, backlogs, and sprint execution that actually ship. I move initiatives from stuck to delivered across teams and dependencies.
Modernization
Retiring legacy systems and migrating to modern platforms — off-prem to cloud, manual to automated, brittle to resilient.
Operations & Resiliency
Production support, deployment coordination, and observability. Turning reactive firefighting into predictable, monitored operations.
Business–Tech Translation
The connective layer between stakeholders and engineers. I make sure the thing that gets built is the thing the business actually needed.
Team Leadership
Hiring, mentoring, and aligning cross-functional teams. Building the people-system that makes the technical system durable.
Initiatives I've led
Customer Data Platform
Designed a customer data platform to understand the full customer journey, enable cross-sell, and enhance experience through channel interaction analysis.
Read Case Study →Snowflake Cloud Migration
Led migration of dozens of TB from on-prem repositories to Snowflake, delivering hundreds of modernized data products for marketing and analytics.
Read Case Study →Enterprise Observability Platform
Integrated 60 key applications into Splunk ITSI, transforming IT Operations' ability to monitor, predict, and prevent system failures.
Read Case Study →Infrastructure Modernization
Managed provisioning and migration of 1,000s of DB instances and servers, retiring Oracle, Solaris, and Win2008 technical debt.
Read Case Study →Career timeline
2023 — Present
PlatformData Engineering Manager
Ally Financial
Leading data engineering team with agile scrum. Snowflake platform modernization, data quality assurance, decommissioning dozens of TB of on-prem repositories.
2021 — 2023
ProductData Product Manager
Ally Financial
Delivered hundreds of Snowflake data products. Designed the customer data platform for journey analysis and cross-sell. Owned roadmap, backlog, and sprint execution.
2019 — 2021
InfrastructureProject Analyst
Ally Financial
Infrastructure operations at scale. Provisioned and migrated 1,000s of DB instances. Managed 25+ weekly system configuration changes. Retired legacy tech debt.
2018 — 2019
ObservabilityBusiness Analyst
Ally Financial
Integrated 60 applications into Splunk ITSI for proactive monitoring. Oracle DB upgrades. PowerBI dashboards for scope tracking and stakeholder reporting.
2015 — 2017
Risk & GovernanceSenior IT Risk Consultant
Ernst & Young
Developed RPA software to automate IT change management testing, reducing testing time by 90%. Led IT risk assessments with offshore teams.
Operating principles
Range is the moat
Specialists optimize their lane. Operators connect the lanes. The hardest enterprise problems live in the gaps between teams — that's where I work best.
Ship the outcome, not the output
A dashboard nobody uses isn't delivery. I measure success by the decision made, the cost retired, the risk removed — not the ticket closed.
Build the team, then the platform
Technical systems are only as resilient as the people behind them. Durable platforms come from durable teams — so I invest in people first.
Tools I work in
Let's talk.
Open to senior delivery, product-operations, and platform leadership roles — and to advisory conversations.
I share how I think about enterprise delivery and operations on LinkedIn. That's the best place to follow along.