Engineering Leader & Founder
Amina Emenena
Building secure, scalable platforms and high-performing teams
About
I'm an Engineering Manager, Entrepreneur, and Doctoral Researcher based in Southern California. Currently leading platform engineering and developer productivity at CoreWeave.
Previously led infrastructure teams at Twitch/Amazon supporting 241M+ monthly active users. Held engineering roles at Raytheon and Northrop Grumman on mission-critical defense programs.
Now building BuildFlow Labs, applying intelligence-grade rigor to commercial software delivery through my doctoral research at George Washington University.
Cloud & Infrastructure
CI/CD
Compliance
Monitoring & Observability
Experience
CoreWeave
Software Engineering Manager
- Led migration of 120+ CI/CD services engaging 20 teams and 250 developers
- Designed secure CI/CD practices for SOC 2 and FedRAMP compliance
- Built centralized dashboards and internal CLI productivity tools
Twitch / Amazon
Software Engineering Manager
- Infrastructure supporting 241M+ monthly active users
- CI/CD pipelines for 900+ developers
- Mentored 12 engineers across two product portfolios
Defense & Aerospace
Valimail / Raytheon / Northrop Grumman
- Navy programs including Zumwalt DDG-1000
- Testing framework validating 17,000+ requirements
- 2018 Modern-Day Technology Leader Award
Automating Trust.
Engineering Compliance.
BuildFlow Labs applies intelligence-grade rigor to commercial software delivery through policy-as-code.
BuildGuard
GitHub-native compliance scanning across SOC2, NIST, ISO, PCI, and FedRAMP frameworks.
PBOM
Pipeline Bill of Materials for cryptographic artifact lineage tracking.
The Blueprint
Federal-aligned CI/CD bootstrap template for compliant environments.
Education
D.Sc. Cybersecurity
George Washington University
Research: Policy-as-code and verifiable software supply chains
M.S. Systems Engineering
Johns Hopkins University, 2020
B.S. Computer Science
Alabama A&M University
Certifications
Scrum Master / Product Owner / AWS Cloud Architecting
Let's Connect
Developer productivity, compliance automation, or engineering leadership.