John Mandel

Invicti Security Chief Engineering Officer

John Mandel is a proven transformational product engineering executive experienced in successfully leading globally distributed teams that build modern and innovative solutions. Mandel loves the challenge of growing and transforming a team from their legacy ways to a modern, fulfilling and productive way to deliver products customers love. I have built teams from scratch, Integrated teams from different companies, started up new teams in geographically distributed locations, transformed legacy products to modern architectures, delivered true SaaS products and enterprise products to market.

Mandel was co-founder of a VC backed company, worked at a company with an IPO exit, grew companies from pre-revenue to $10M revenue, grew companies as the head of engineering from $45M to $140M. He has also been an engineering leader in large organizations between $300M & $1B in revenue.

Across all these companies responsibilities included building, motivating and managing teams, designing efficient DevOps, Development and Quality Engineering processes, introducing governance models, releasing software ranging from 1 release per day to 1 per year.

In addition to driving all aspects of product development, Mandel has always been very involved in ensuring our customer’s success upfront with product requirements gathering and on the back end driving the services and support. In all executive roles, he has worked with distributed teams in locations across the world running multiple different SDLC processes.

Mandel’s specialties include Transformation, Collaboration, Team building, Startups, Growth, Distributed Development, Quality Engineering, Program and Project management, Large Scale Saas Product, Budgeting, Strategic Planning, Employee Hiring and Growth, Team Retention & Satisfaction, Customer Satisfaction Driven, Problem Solver.