Led the globally distributed engineering teams building GemFire, a low latency, strongly consistent distributed datastore running critical applications across finance, telecommunications, transportation, healthcare, and defense sectors. Key results:• Extended GemFire to new platforms including Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. Broadened market fit with extensions for Redis applications, full-text search, fleet management, and JSON documents.• Directly managed highly escalated customer incidents with executive-level visibility. Coordinated responses and communicated across R&D, Support, Account, and Customer teams. Instituted blameless port-mortems for continuous learning.• Developed strong recruiting pipelines and inclusive interview processes to increase diversity and double the team size across multiple locations. Candidates consistently rated our approach as the best and most transparent experience they’ve ever encountered.• Founding member of the Apache Geode project with 100k+ downloads each month. Transitioned team to open source practices. Navigated legal considerations, invested in building a community, and presented talks at SpringOne, ApacheCon, and VMware events. Member of the Apache Software Foundation.• Sustained team culture and mission across multiple leadership transitions while keeping attrition well under 10%.• Increased quality (70% reduction in escaped defects) while balancing innovation, customer requests, and reducing technical debt in a large and complicated code base.• Implemented continuous integration, automated testing, test driven development, iterative planning, and other agile practices to enable high collaboration and feedback cycles measured in hours instead of days.• Track record of coaching engineers and managers from interns into senior contributors on high performing teams. Evaluated performance, provided critical feedback, and allocated compensation.

Developed and presented a joint Comcast/Intel second screen streaming video technology preview at CES showcase event. Successfully promoted DLNA Premium Video standard to senior executives, media, and cable industry. Created an OCAP set-top box application to expose cable API’s to cloud-based applications, supporting millions of users on the Comcast Xfinity platform. Responsible for messaging protocols, specifications, and coordination across multiple vendors.

Created developer tools for embedded applications running on a custom massively parallel hardware chip. Responsible for developing global optimization algorithms for placement and routing of application code. Improved placement speed by more than 60X through the application of advanced algorithms. Surveyed academic research and implemented various techniques including simulated annealing, floorplanning, pathfinder negotiated congestion, A* shortest path, and bin packing. Provided insight and theoretical models to influence the design of the next generation chip.

Guided the development of nABLE, a suite of high-performance, mission-critical products for managing video streams and content in cable television environments. Key results included the following:• Led new product development effort supporting Switched Digital Video. Coordinated system integration efforts with external partners. Defined product features and release schedule. Met aggressive delivery dates for product certifications and customer trials.• Created the next generation product architecture and converted team members into proponents of component-based design. Decomposed a monolith into independent services including high availability, write ahead transaction logging, job scheduling, and event processing state machines.• Spearheaded a successful process improvement initiative resulting in the adoption of Agile methods. Led to improved team morale, better visibility of progress, and increased communication among team members.• Detected and fixed numerous network and threading defects resulting in a reduction in service ticket escalations. Fixed a distributed contention issue that boosted throughput by 20%.

Provided innovation, leadership, and senior Java development expertise throughout the growth of a peer-to-peer content delivery network. Developed an efficient multi-threaded Java client with robust HTTP/1.1 libraries. Prioritized features and coordinated release schedules across multiple products.

Navigated a complex, multi-stakeholder project environment to define the system architecture for a government pension administration system. Managed the system architecture team including hiring and performance reviews. Responsible for planning a multi-year, multi-million dollar project effort. Led the definition of the programming model and frameworks for application developers.

Led a team of twelve Java developers to deliver a customer service application for insurance policy management. Developed an object-oriented expert system to automate welfare case management.