• Team lead and Hiring Manager for Data Platform• Graphite is a non-profit health tech startup, backed by leading healthcare organizations, creating a comprehensive digital ecosystem for the frictionless exchange of health data.• Responsible for design/development/implementation of data platform into clients cloud account • Mentor & manage technical direction of five Software/Data Engineers• People management responsibilities of two Software Engineers•

• Team lead for Data Engineering, Data Infrastructure• Mentor & manage technical direction of six Software/Data Engineers• Reduced On-call incidents from 60 to 5 per week, over 9 month side project• Implemented Tableau for visualization of data warehouse data via Trino for all 3000 Slack employees• Instrumental in Pinot deployment for OLAP querying of data warehouse• Contributed to reducing 10% of AWS weekly expenses through data storage & infrastructure reduction • Responsible for all Data Engineering GovCloud (FEDRamp High) processes & infrastructure in AWS• Designed self-healing framework to automate SRE runbooks during service alerts & downtime incidents• Developed TLS certificate rotation framework in AWS EMR clusters• Held bi-weekly touch calls with software vendors, Starburst & AWS • Participate in Production On-call rotation; responsible for commanding incident responses•

• Team Lead for Data Engineering• Mentor & manage technical direction of six Software Engineers• Re-architect data warehouse ingestion pipelines to increase reliability• Architect & develop Narvar's Monitor product. • Participate in Production On-call rotation•

• Provide Elasticsearch, Redis, Cassandra, Kafka, & Zookeeper as managed services for FireEye applications• Provide expertise in data modeling for supported data stores.• Build automation tooling to deploy/configure data stores.• Build automation for operations, maintenance, patching, backups, & restores of data stores.• Build dashboards and alerting for data store performance visibility.• Ensure automation tooling & data store configuration meets FedRAMP Medium compliance on AWS GovCloud.• Manage data architecture for Helix Security Platform• Create working POCs of architecture designs in distributed, relational, key-value, & document data stores• Participate in Production On-call rotation•

• Provide expertise on Apache Kafka & Zookeeper, Kafka Streams, KSQL, & Kafka sink/source connectors.• Develop/advocate best practices, gather/validate critical product feedback for Confluent Platform.• Help customers overcome their operational challenges.• Weekly travel to customers location, in post-sales, professional services scenarios.• Write documentation, knowledge base articles, reference architecture material, & design patterns.•

• Founding member of DataStax Managed Cloud• Designing/Building platform automation for the DataStax Managed Cloud (DMC) hosted DSE solution.• Recipient of Engineering Excellence Award• Designing/Building out Site Reliability tools to ensure MTTR/MTTD/MTTF metrics & SLO/SLI/SLA for customers infrastructure. • Providing in-person, white glove service to onboard customers' data/services into the DMC platform. • Mentoring new SRE hires on the DevOps team.• Participate in Production On-call rotation•

• DataScale was successfully acquired by DataStax to be renamed DataStax Managed Cloud• Design/Build automated platform to manage hosted Apache Cassandra as a service.• Onboard new customers' data/services into DataScale platform• Maintain constant touch points with all customers to stay abreast of data/service changes• Evaluate all customer application code bases before onboard into DataScale platform• Provide all Technical Support for customers• Write weekly blogs on Cassandra at http://datascale.io/category/data/• Maintain all content/engagement for @DataScaleInc Twitter handle • Presented two talks at DataStax's Cassandra Summit 2016• Presented at numerous Cassandra Meet-ups around the US & Canada• Recipient of DataStax MVP Award for Apache Cassandra•

• Responsible for defining and developing the CloudPassage Halo data model, ensuring that the entire data stack, including Cassandra and PostgreSQL are optimized for high-performance and high-availability in a highly dynamic and hyper growth environment.• Thorough review of current data model and schema• Strategy for enabling hyper-growth and optimization of data model• Moving away from licensed DataStax products and support and using open source tools• Implementing a plan for driving advanced and predictive analytics from the data model• Providing information on tools for data model optimization• Working closely with development and devops to ensure we have the right infrastructure stack and it is configured correctly•

• Design/implement snowflake Data Warehouse for Insurance Claims data using SQL Server• Design/implement multiple Analysis Services Cubes for business analysts• Design/implement de-normalized relational database for reporting users• Design metrics dashboard for C-level executive users• Implement Scrum development practices•

• Creation of multi-terabyte Cassandra NoSQL data stores• Migration of existing relational SQL Server data to new NoSQL design• Development of Java backend code to interface with both SQL & NoSQL engines• Development of Python & Bash scripting for managing data movement in Amazon’s S3 buckets• Development of OpsCode Chef recipes for automated creation of Linux VMs in Amazon’s EC2 environment• Design data structures for both relational and NoSQL data needs• Design & maintain SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages• Conversion of Data Transformation Services (DTS) to SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages• Optimize, tune, & test SQL queries for peak performance and to alleviate concurrency & deadlock pressure•

• SQL Server database design & performance tuning. • Create SQL Server database sync scripts for every product release and service pack.• Assist Installations team on SQL Server & product installation/upgrades.• Implement database version control through Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition and Team Foundation Server.• Provide support in data conversions from legacy mainframe databases.• C# & VB.NET Client/Server WinForm development of main product.• Lead developer for integration of Reporting Services & Crystal Reports viewers in .NET reporting solution to display system reports.• Lead developer for creation of ad-hoc Reporting Services application.•

• C#, ASP.NET, XML, XSLT, & JavaScript development/maintenance of main product.• Improve overall database performance through analysis of bottlenecks, deadlocks, I/O utilization, and connection pooling.• Develop C# database migration application to manage database sync scripts between product releases.• Mentor other developers in SQL Server database development and performance.• Agile development methodology.

• C#, VB.NET, & VB6 WinForm development for main product, ancillary products, and custom solutions.• Technical Lead for Offshore development project; manage 5 developers in India for completion of code conversion of 93 apps and 212 reports.• Develop & Implement Business Intelligence application using Analysis Services Data Mart / Data Warehouse with Visual Basic 6 user interface that utilize Pivot Tables and Crystal Reports.• Maintain mobile product for PDAs using C#, Windows Mobile 5.0 and SQL Server Mobile.• Refactor code and database objects for government mandate Patient Safety standards of medication frequency.• Develop VB.NET application to interact with MapQuest web services to automate driving directions.• Develop SOAP web services to exchange data with third-party vendors.• Maintain all Crystal Report applications in product.• Mentor junior engineers in code development.

• Data analysis of hospital data for departmental requests off of Cerner Decision Support System and hospital mainframe databases.• Develop Visual Basic 6 applications to streamline analysis timelines and provide repeatable consistency.• Develop a mining tool to screen scrape info from PDF documents of Press Ganey patient satisfaction surveys.• Introduced Crystal Reports 7 as primary analysis delivery tool.

• Visual Basic 6 & AutoLISP automation for Computer Automated Drafting (CAD) software• Diagnose and upgrade hardware on client machines.