SideBetz.ai is the world's first platform where viewers of poker live-stream can participate in the live action at the table by wagering on the poker players. With odds changing dynamically the platform provide every poker fan means to feel the thrill of being at a high stakes table from the comfort of their couch, using their phone.

Assist and advise various startups. This ranges from investing, brainstorming about strategy, architecture, collaborating to come up with tag-lines, and anything that can help a startup.

I will be working closely with our CEO to help strengthen our relationships with our customers, clients, and partners.

I took the time to research "what comes next" on a full-time basis. I also used this time to advise and invest in startups and personal growth projects.

Advise and assist the founding team on solution development and application of technology to address customer needs.

Design and develop solutions, leveraging our core IP to overcome scalability challenges in data management.

Help the CEO in doing everything else (aside from writing Java code)Help the CTO in prioritizing what fire to put out firstHelp all of the team members be as successful as they can be at putting out fires and starting a few good onesHelp to grow and build an amazing team of really passionate engineers

Worked on turning really cool technology into Products which make our customers smile (and on many occasions scratch their head because they did not think this was possible).

Help with strategic initiatives. Helping Imagine leverage technology to scale operations.

Going to take some time off to figure out what comes next.

- I benchmarked, designed, setup our Aster Data based MPP data warehouse solution. In addition to initial setup I manage the Aster cluster.- I guide engineering teams make the best data storage/retrieval design decisions.- I manage change management process for all the production databases.

LinkedIn is, well LinkedIn, the worlds largest professional networking site with over 50 Million. I was responsible for the Data Architecture within LinkedIn. I worked for the CTO office which defined goals and best practices to support the scalability and reliability needs. The CTO office also acted as the bridge between Engineering and Operations, this included setting up performance labs and metrics that were to be used to ensure that feature sets and releases will scale and would deploy without affecting performance and reliability in production. I was also responsible for the architecture to support the disaster/recovery needs and high-availability needs of the databases and data stores that supported LinkedIn.Technical environment: Oracle, Oracle Enterprise Manager, MySQL, Java, KETL, Solaris, OSX

Sourceforge.net was the worlds largest Opensource repository in the world, it was home to over 100,000 projects and had over a Million registered users. The site served more than a Million software downloads per day and had at least one user come to the site for every country in the world, any given day.I was part of a small team of 4 that supported the SF.net infrastructure. I was the only DBA in the team and was the primary point of contact for any and all database needs. I worked closely with the QoS team to ensure the reliability of the service. During the 4+ years at SF.net I witnessed over 4X increase in popularity of Opensource software and site usage growth. A major part of my daily routine was troubleshooting, and problem-solving.Technical environment: PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2, Linux(Redhat,Fedora), Apache, PHP, OSX

Zembu was a startup that was developing a on-demand database replication platform. The idea of the system was to push data to the edge of the network and have databases self-populate with relevant and required data. Put simply Zembu was to databases what Akamai is to content.I worked on different teams within Zembu. I served on the operations team and was responsible to setup a 5 server asynchronous multi-master replication using Oracle replication. On the professional services team I met with customers and translated business requirements into technical requirement and feature requests.Technical environment: Oracle, PostgreSQL, Solaris, Linux(Debian), Windows, ER-Studio

Astata was a startup that initially worked on a contract to develop a web-based community application for students. Astata eventually moved into a niche market of writing web-apps and apps for wireless devices. They had some of the first apps targeted for Blackberry.I inherited an inefficiently designed database that had to be re-engineered such that the monolithic database would be split into multiple databases with data flowing between the databases via replication. The redesign has to take into consideration privacy requirements. I also investigated and acquired tools to monitor, troubleshoot Oracle.Technical environment: Oracle, Linux, Windows, ASP, Quest Instance Monitor, Quest spotlight, Quest SQLXpert.

Consulted with various organizations. Responsibilities included software development, systems design. Working with a wide spectrum of customers and systems helped me understand my strengths and weaknesses and helped me focus in on Database technologies and implementations. I work on SQL development, modeling, scripting for backup/restore and SQL tuning.