Hello, I'm

Ed Hertzog

Product Engineer & AI-First Team Lead

M.S. Cloud Computing Architecture|SAFe® POPM|SAFe® DevOps|Greater Philadelphia

About

Builder, mentor, and lifelong learner

Ed Hertzog is a seasoned technology leader with 25+ years guiding digital transformation for Fortune 1000 companies in finance, health services, fintech, and manufacturing verticals. His career at CapTech and beyond centers on aligning business goals with tech delivery—leading teams to modernize legacy systems into scalable cloud platforms that drive revenue, compliance, and customer experience. Key themes include bridging stakeholders, mentoring teams for faster product launches, and creating reusable tools that cut costs and speed market delivery, from payment apps to data pipelines. With mastery of efficient workflows like Agile, Ed enables agentic development that empowers teams to innovate autonomously. As a product engineer, he maximizes business value by turning complex requirements into reliable, high-impact solutions that scale with growth.

🎤 Currently available for conferences and other speaking engagements on the topic of AI-driven agile development, AI-first team leadership, and building high-performing engineering teams that ship. If you're interested in having me speak at your event, please don't hesitate to reach out via the contact section below.

Experience

Building products with measurable impact

Manager → Senior Manager

CapTech Consulting

Apr 2018 - Present

Promoted from Manager to Senior Manager in 2022
AI in Tech Community of Practice Lead driving innovation and knowledge sharing
Architecture owner and lead data engineer for enterprise data pipelines
Led cross-functional teams of 8-12 in hybrid microservice and event-driven solutions for FinTech clients
Directed API development in Go, C#, NodeJS, Java, TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, and PHP
Implemented DevOps tools and IaC for streamlined operations and quality control
Devised cloud architecture strategies for AWS, Azure, Salesforce, and GCP
Organized training sessions for junior developers on architectural patterns
Managed global teams using SAFe methodologies for precise work allocation
Enhanced team collaboration and executed security initiatives for asset protection

Senior Interactive Technologist → Manager

2012 - 2018

Promoted from Senior Interactive Technologist to Manager in 2016, after Intuitive Company was acquired by EY in 2015, who originally hired me in 2012
Steered teams of UX Engineers and UI developers in complex B2B/B2C applications
Pioneered comprehensive design system development and adoption strategies
Recruited and onboarded talented candidates to build high-performing teams
Promoted emerging technologies through articles, workshops, and conferences
Led technology assessments providing valuable client insights
Developed responsive web applications using JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
Built strong stakeholder relationships to gather requirements and define KPIs
Introduced reusable front-end frameworks (Angular, React, Knockout, Backbone)
Delivered solutions for complex pricing models, personas, and workflows
Ensured on-time project completion through effective client engagement

Projects

Projects that blend craft and outcomes

Healthcare

Data Engineer, Solution Architect (Azure)

Led architecture and implementation of enterprise data pipeline for Fortune 100 healthcare solutions firm (Dec 2025 – present), delivering end-to-end design from multi-mode ingestion to governed serving via Medallion architecture in Azure Databricks; authored PRDs, diagrams, and bridged stakeholders for reliable, compliant, scalable data products.

DatabricksAzurePython

Healthcare

Salesforce Data Migration Engineer

Accelerated Salesforce org migration/consolidation for 3 instances into unified org, building critical integrations with external systems to drive on-time finish-line delivery as late-stage technical contributor.

SalesforceApexSOQLLWC

Finance

Software Engineer, Solution Architect (AWS)

Led a microservices development team using Go and AWS for Fortune 100 financial institution's bank modernization program (Jun 2024 – May 2025), designing/implementing shared services, libraries, and fine-grained RBAC authentication across vertical domains to align business goals with technology. Architected foundational E2E testing framework for multi-domain user journeys, delivering automation roadmap to enable scalable integration testing once partner services mature.

GoAWSPythonDomain-Driven Design

Finance

Software Engineer, Solution Architect (AWS)

Contributed hands-on to Camunda-based, event-driven app migration for publicly traded financial firm (March 2023 – June 2024), delivering MVP on tight timeline, extending functionality across business domains via code delivery each sprint, solution design, junior mentoring, and stakeholder requirement discovery.

Camunda BPM.Net/C#AWSKafka

Finance

Software Engineer, Solution Architect (AWS)

Led cross-functional team of .NET developers, data engineers, and QA (onshore/nearshore/offshore, CapTech + partners) for publicly traded financial firm's legacy on-prem to AWS migration (Autumn 2022 – March 2023), designing APIs, architecting solutions, building stakeholder consensus, and driving multi-feature PI delivery via hands-on C# coding, mentoring, and cross-team coordination.

.Net/C#AWS

Payments

Lead Developer (Mobile)

Led React Native MVP development for Fortune 1000 payments processor (May 2022 - July 2022), translating business requirements into working software via stakeholder collaboration, visual design/accessibility adherence, Android/iOS deployments for testing, junior mentoring, and quality delivery on tight deadline.

React NativeiOSAndroid

Finance

Lead Developer (Full Stack)

Drove Fortune 500 FinTech firm's on-prem to AWS migrations (Spring 2021 – Summer 2022), authoring Terraform for IaC across environments, Angular UI/JavaScript, C# APIs, and knowledge transfer docs; managed onshore/offshore resources and processes for app maintenance/extension. Led API microservices team on second project, converting on-prem MuleSoft to containerized .NET APIs on AWS Kubernetes; mentored developers and built stakeholder consensus on designed security/authentication solutions.

TerraformAWSAngular.Net/C#MuleSoftKubernetes

Manufacturing

UI Developer

Implemented an Angular front-end consuming a headless CMS (Episerver) with C# REST APIs on Azure. Managed CI/CD pipelines and extended eCommerce functionality for a Canadian manufacturing firm.

ReactTypeScriptAngularC#Azure

Contact

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