Even while working at Excella, I remained in close contact with my friends from Qualtrax. As great as Excella was, there was a part of me that missed working on a single product with a small team. After a few conversations I made the difficult choice to go back to Qualtrax, only this time I would be primarily focusing on our backend code (they had entire team dedicated to the frontend now).


Not long after my return, I became the team lead for a team of three engineers called the Ghostbusters. We were mostly responsible for fixing emergency issues while refactoring our massive legacy product.


Ideagen acquired Qualtrax just a little bit before I left. It was a bittersweet moment for sure. Sadly not many of the same folks work there today.

Even while working at Excella, I remained in close contact with my friends from Qualtrax. As great as Excella was, there was a part of me that missed working on a single product with a small team. After a few conversations I made the difficult choice to go back to Qualtrax, only this time I would be primarily focusing on our backend code (they had entire team dedicated to the frontend now).


Not long after my return, I became the team lead for a team of three engineers called the Ghostbusters. We were mostly responsible for fixing emergency issues while refactoring our massive legacy product.


Ideagen acquired Qualtrax just a little bit before I left. It was a bittersweet moment for sure. Sadly not many of the same folks work there today.

TEAM: GHOSTBUSTERS (TEAM-LEAD)

TEAM: GHOSTBUSTERS (TEAM-LEAD)

  • Team transitioned from 4-5 yearly releases to an automated weekly release via Azure Pipelines.

  • Team reduced user story lead-time from 73 days to 17 within 1 year using Agile and DevOps principles.

  • Owner of the collaboration between customer support and product engineering. Responsible for facilitating all escalations and critical failures.

  • Organized and implemented major initiative to remove all XSS vulnerabilities from a large WebForms product.

  • Team transitioned from 4-5 yearly releases to an automated weekly release via Azure Pipelines.

  • Team reduced user story lead-time from 73 days to 17 within 1 year using Agile and DevOps principles.

  • Owner of the collaboration between customer support and product engineering. Responsible for facilitating all escalations and critical failures.

  • Organized and implemented major initiative to remove all XSS vulnerabilities from a large WebForms product.

Logo I made for our Ghostbusters team.

Logo I made for our Ghostbusters team.

I was interviewed by a local company talking about working in our area. See if you can find me!

I was interviewed by a local company talking about working in our area. See if you can find me!

© 2024 Kevin Poston

© 2024 Kevin Poston

© 2024 Kevin Poston