• Provided dedicated technical capacity to the CTO, augmenting and extending the CTO’s impact.• Engaged in technical work at a level of depth impractical for the CTO given constraints on individual time and attention. • Researched, designed, and built fully functional PoCs to prove technologies beyond the SotA are possible. These cross functional projects were then demoed to senior leadership and subsequent artifacts and innovations were integrated back into our already highly advanced products.

We’re building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people with the places, things, and experiences they care about.

• Led and managed high-performing, cross-functional teams composed of frontend specialists, data engineers, and simulation engineers.• Responsible for hiring, interviewing, onboarding, supporting, and promoting team members.• Collaborated with Embark’s technical leadership to coordinate projects and ensure cross-team cooperation and growth.• Converted Embark’s simulation stack from Python to C++ and added support for resimulation from drive data (Python, C++, Simian).• Wrote a dependency and schema free, fast OSS ROS bag file parser (C++).

• Envisioned, designed, and built Embark’s big data strategy and tooling (Python, Spark, Tableau, Databricks).• Proposed, integrated, and maintained Embark’s planning simulation and CI system with Applied Intuition (Python, Simian).• Discovered and solved deep technical autonomous vehicle stack issues to ensure safety and smooth releases (C++, Python, ROS, many more).• Built Embark’s first metrics based view of autonomous vehicle calibration and performance (Python, Databricks, Tableau).

• Envisioned and built Project Radar - Machine learning and artificial intelligence based application infrastructure diagnostics (RoR, React, Spark, NodeJS, Python, Java).• Co-authored patent on automated root cause analysis - based on internal service (RoR, React)• Researched and built numerous prototypes - working directly with CxOs (RoR, NodeJS, React, Spark, Python, Go among many others).• Designed, fabricated, and managed FutureStack’s electronic conference badges - EDA to final, physical product running custom firmware (RoR, Electric Imp, Altium).• Advised multiple corporate acquisitions including evaluation and coordination.

• Responsible for Android agent installed on millions of devices (Java, Dalvik, ART).• Instrumented most Android build systems to simplify agent installation (Java, Groovy).• Implemented activity/method tracing and crash reporting (Java).

• Managed migration from Quickbooks to NetSuite.• Implemented ERP synchronization framework that continues to function without significant maintenance (RoR).• Worked with auditors to review this system and ensure IPO readiness.

• Optimized and rebuilt backend services, including EC2 on-demand scaling.• Built testing and deployment frameworks and instituted agile development practices.• Major projects included a Ruby VM for programmatic execution control, distributed work dispatcher, full metrics suite guided by The Lean Startup.

• Helped design, build, and deploy CloudCrowd from the ground up.• Responsibilities include backend software design, development and testing, database design and optimization, and production systems tuning.

• Responsible for designing and maintaining core financial databases.• Other responsibilities include building financial data feed loading mechanisms, data integrity checks, and automated report generation.

• Projects include developing multithreaded MySQL replication engine, query throughput scaling algorithms, and maintaining backend code.• Deployed MySQL using InnoDB with replication and fully redundant MySQL Cluster with Dolphin SCI 2D 20Gbit/s interconnects.

Research Assistant under the direction of Dr. Alex Reyes• Research involved adapting my distributed neural network real-time simulation architecture to interface with living neurons in vitro.• Ported biophysical simulations to run on supercomputing platforms.Research Assistant under the direction of Dr. Paul Glimcher• Conducted research using our neuroeconomic implementation of the Ellsberg Paradox to study the effects of ambiguity.• Protocol included fMRI scanning to study BOLD activity during decision-making.• Results presented at Society for Neuroscience 2005 and Society for Neuroeconomics 2005 (abstracts and reprints available upon request).