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Engineering Manager · .NET / Angular Architect

Xavier Triplett

Newly graduated junior engineer leading half the engineering team in under five years.

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About

I'm an engineering manager and individual contributor at Buildable. I started there as an intern while in school, hired on full time after graduation and, in five years, worked up to managing half of engineering.

I still build things myself every day. I'm always looking for ways to improve our processes and tools. The rest of my time is spent on the human side: coaching engineers into leads, improving communication and providing learning opportunities for all engineers so the whole team is always growing and improving, and making sure clients have someone to talk to who actually understands their unique business.

I care about what makes teams efficient and fast: engineers owning the whole project, not just their own piece; a process that provides real value, not busy work; and a team that produces excellent work I'm proud to put my name on.

Xavier Triplett
based
McMinnville, Oregon
role
Engineering manager / architect
company
Buildable
degrees
B.S. Computer Science · B.S. Mathematics at Linfield University, 2020
focus
Angular / .NET / teams

Selected work

Three problems I owned end to end: the situation I walked into, the call I made, and what changed.

01 / 03

1-month build

A FRED MCP server for OpenAI

A Python MCP server connecting OpenAI models to Federal Reserve (FRED) data, hardened with hundreds of hand-written evals.

Problem

OpenAI needed its models to reach FRED (the Federal Reserve's hundreds of thousands of economic time series) through the Model Context Protocol, reliably enough to trust in production.

Action

Led a small team through a one-month build of the MCP server in Python, exposing FRED as clean MCP tools and created hundreds of evals to pin down correct behavior across real queries, edge cases, and failure modes.

Result

Shipped in a month with an eval suite proving the server hands OpenAI models the right economic data on demand.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) · OpenAI · Python · Leadership

02 / 03

-50% turnover · 8 launches

Building a team that ships

Turned a team people kept leaving into one that keeps its engineers and ships client work on a repeatable process.

Problem

Engineers kept leaving (leading to repeated knowledge loss and retraining), and each client project depended on who built it and how well they knew the system.

Action

Worked with the VP of Engineering to improve how work moved through the teams, set up real mentorship, and set a repeatable process to increase our delivery consistency.

Result

Turnover fell by half, I coached three junior engineers into project leads, and eight client projects launched on the shared process, several bringing in new work through referrals.

Leadership · Process · Mentorship

03 / 03

2x revenue in 1 yr

Doubling our biggest client

Took over the company's largest client and grew it instead of just maintaining it.

Problem

Our largest client needed one person to step in and be responsible for keeping the live product on track and stable.

Action

I took ownership of the client's most complex systems with no existing documentation, learning healthcare nuances, COBRA applications, 834 files and a complex billing system myself. I became the client's primary point of contact for business logic, translating ambiguous requirements into clear deliverables for the engineering team. The project became incredibly stable and consistent while also having twice as many engineers shipping to production every month.

Result

The account brought in twice the revenue within a year and became a model for other client engagements.

Ownership · Client work · Full-stack

Experience

  1. Buildable

    Nov 2018 - Present

    Oregon

    Software Engineering Manager

    Jun 2022 - Present

    Ran half of the engineering team while still shipping code every week as an individual contributor.

    • Worked with the VP of Engineering to create a consistent process and a rubric to grade engineering work.
    • Successfully led multiple million-dollar projects to completion, ensuring high quality and timely delivery.
    • Created an AI automation that reduced bugs in production and improved the quality of work delivered by the team.

    Leadership · Process Design · Python · MCP · AI Orchestration

    Software Engineering Team Lead

    Jun 2021 - Jun 2022

    Led the team responsible for a third of the company's projects.

    • Mentored multiple junior engineers and helped them grow into leadership roles.
    • Took over the company's largest account, undocumented and highly ambiguous, and doubled its revenue in under a year.
    • Extracted complex business rules from the client and translated them into clear deliverables for the team.

    Requirement Gathering · Communication

    Junior Full-Stack Developer

    Jun 2020 - Jun 2021

    Built features across client products, from the browser down to the database.

    • Became a key contributor to the company's most profitable project.
    • Balanced work across several client projects each week, juggling competing priorities and deadlines across multiple teams.

    Full-Stack · Prioritization

    Software Engineer Intern

    Nov 2018 - Jun 2020

    Wrote production code part-time around a double major courseload, learning the ropes alongside the company's senior engineers.

    • Learned three programming languages while carrying a full courseload and completing a double major.
    • Built features and addressed bugs across multiple client products, from the browser down to the database.

    C# · Angular · TypeScript · SQL

  2. Linfield Computer Lab

    Feb 2018 - May 2019

    Lab Manager

    Feb 2018 - May 2019
    • Tutored students two hours a day on computer science coursework.
    • Worked with the IT manager to secure 30 computer systems.

    Mentoring · IT

  3. Amazon

    June - August 2017

    Warehouse Associate

    June - August 2017
    • Sorted hundreds of packages daily, quickly and efficiently.
    • Recognized for the lowest error count (0) in a single day among a team of 100+.

    Precision

  4. Summera

    June - August 2016

    Software Engineer Intern

    June - August 2016
    • Self-taught C# in order to build a C# script automating Excel report generation, saving ~10 hours a week.

    Self-taught

Skills

Backend & Data

C#ASP.NET / .NETSQLPythonREST APIsModel Context Protocol (MCP)

Frontend

AngularTypeScriptRxJS / SignalsHTMLCSS

Leadership

Team managementMentoringPlanning & staffingProcess designClient work

Contact

Say hello.

Email is the best way to reach me about engineering, something on this site, or an idea you want to talk through.

xavier.triplett@gmail.com

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