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Engineering Leader

Antoine
McAbee

I solve hard technical problems by going deep where it matters, connecting architecture to business reality, and building the teams and relationships that make execution stick.

At a Glance
AI SDLCE2E
Engineers Led Globally17+
Annual Transaction Volume (ERP)6B
Cloud Cost Reduction50%
Deployment Time Reduction40%
Outcomes

How I solve

Leadership Through Leverage

I build teams and cross-functional trust that turn strong technical ideas into repeatable delivery across engineering, product, finance, supply chain, and security.

Technical Depth & Breadth

From cloud architecture to security, enterprise systems, data flows, and AI enablement, I stay close enough to the work to make good calls and broad enough to connect the system end to end.

Creative Problem Solving

I look for the highest-leverage intervention, whether that is a platform, an integration, a workflow, or a team design, and measure it by the business outcome it unlocks.

Impact

Selected problem-solving work

01
2025 – Present·Ford Model E — Universal EV Platform

Building the UEV Platform Tools Organization

Defined the mission, solved the operating problems, and scaled it into a global platform engineering org

17+
Engineers Led
6
Domains Served
<1yr
Time to Full Operation
02
2024 – 2025·Electric Vehicle, Digital and Design

GCMS Full Platform Modernization

Replatformed a legacy system without breaking the business around it

100%
Platform Migrated
0
Downtime Minutes
30%
Performance Improvement
03
2023 – 2024·Ford Motor Company — Cyber Defense

Cyber Defense GCP Transformation

Bridging Cyber Defense and Enterprise Cloud to close security and delivery gaps

2
Teams Bridged
1
Unified Dashboard
Cloud+
On-Prem Coverage
04
2019 – 2023·Tyson Foods Inc.

Enterprise ERP Modernization

$6 billion transaction platform modernized with cloud architecture and business alignment

$6B
Annual Transactions
AWS
Cloud Migration
SSO
Enterprise Auth
05
2024 – 2025·Ford Model E

API Security CI Tooling

Embedded security feedback into CI so teams could move faster with less risk

Broad
Platform-wide Adoption
CI
Integrated
0
Manual Gates
Career

Leadership in motion

2025 – Present

UEV Platform Tools

2023 – 2025

Cyber Defense & Cloud Transformation

Depth

Technical range

Cloud
GCP · AWS · Terraform
Security
API Sec · DevSecOps · WAF
Platforms
K8s · CI/CD · Event-Driven
Data
Cloud SQL · BigQuery · Warehousing
AI
AI SDLC · Tooling · Workflow
Enterprise
ERP · SSO · SaaS
Story

About me

I'm an engineering leader who still likes being close to the hard part of the problem. My career has moved through enterprise applications, cybersecurity, cloud architecture, developer platforms, and management, but the throughline is the same: understand the system, identify the leverage point, and build something useful.

At Ford Model E, I was promoted from within the team to lead the UEV Platform Tools organization — a global team of 17+ engineers serving engineering, finance, supply chain, DevOps, data, and AI needs for the Universal EV Platform.

Before management, I led as a technologist — serving as the technical lead for a complex GCP migration, the GCP lead for Ford's Cyber Defense team, and the bridge between SOC operations and Enterprise Cloud Security. At Dell, I secured dell.com protecting $12M/day. At Tyson, I was the primary IT representative for a $6 billion ERP system.

I'm at my best when the problem is messy, cross-functional, and technically real. That usually means mixing systems thinking, hands-on engineering judgment, and the relationships needed to move an organization toward a better outcome.

Shape and scale
The most valuable leadership gives ambiguous work technical direction and operating clarity.
Security is a design principle
Not a gate. Embedded from day one.
Stay technical
Leaders who lose their edge lose the ability to make good calls.
Own the outcome
I stay with the problem through architecture, delivery, and adoption.
Operate in ambiguity
The most important problems rarely arrive with clean boundaries.
Connect

Let's talk about what your organization needs.

I solve technical problems in ways that people can adopt, systems can sustain, and the business can actually use.