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Planned and architected backend and infrastructural changes for new, core product features built on complex, distributed legacy systems.Oversaw project to scale core product to handle multi-account aggregation across our realtime and historical systems to aid centralized news teams consisting of hundreds of websites.Presided over agile development for a team of 4 engineers including breaking down work, loading it into project management software, and leading scrum rituals including sprint planning, grooming, and retrospectives.

Worked on a project to build a distributed, chain replication based database "framework" with command forwarding, configurable commands, and swapable storage backend. Improved core developer experience by building internal pipeline tools similar to Apache Airflow for simplified, transactional ETL pipelines.Assisted DevOps with software implementation of distributed logging system to slurp logs from our cluster operating system (Mesos/Aurora), forward them via Apache Flume to centralized logging servers, upload them to S3 in a structured, compressed format, and then make them queryable via Amazon Athena.WADE: https://github.com/chartbeat-labs/wadeChain Replication: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/rvr/papers/osdi04.pdf

Headline A/B Testing Product https://chartbeat.com/publishing/headline-optimization/:Designed and built, along with a data scientist, a distributed backend based on the open source messaging system Apache Kafka with real time multi-armed bandit modelling. Wrote a HyperLogLog service, providing probabilistic counters for tracking unique visitors with the highly performant key-value store Riak. Stored durable headline experiment results and models in RDS PostgreSQL.

Supervised and oversaw consultants, payroll, training, and scheduling.Designed and implemented new policies and procedures for the HDCP.Addressed issues between consultants and upper management.Automated solutions to payroll and scheduling using Python and PHP.

After graduation I am returning to Chartbeat in the fall of 2014 as a backend engineer.

Caring for boarding cats, dogs, kitties, puppies, and exotics.Gentle restraint assisting in medical procedures such as bandaging, injections, blood draws, intubation, etc.Preparation and sterilization of medical instruments via ethylene oxide gas and autoclave methods.