Promoted to Principal Engineer, driving the future of data and analytics with Snowflake and related technologies.

Curity reshapes the future of US healthcare through our curated, AI-powered care platform that drives five-star, end-to-end patient journeys. Based in Miami, Curity develops software tools that solve for the complexity of value-based healthcare by enabling primary care physicians and their teams to deliver the best clinical and financial outcomes.

Aware Systems LLC is the corporate entity required for B2B / C2C engagements. I have used it throughout my career with a diverse client list providing consulting, design & engineering and a variety of other services.

Primary technical contact for premier clients providing dedicated and long-term architecture review and implementation guidance. Acting primary or secondary technical account management for top-tier - Government, Fortune 100, - enterprise customers. These clients are using MariaDB software on extremely large (+65TB), very active (+100k TPS) environments. These “top 1%” deployments demand the highest levels of expertise to maintain and utilize the most modern features like ColumnStore, MaxScale, end-to-end encryption, multi-threaded replication, multi-master replication, Galera synchronized commit, advanced auditing and performance monitoring, etc.Acting professional services consultant on dozens of one-time consulting client projects. These varied considerably in duration, size, depth and complexity.Actively developing automation and scripting for routine problems. Owner of multiple tooling repositories focusing on Docker, virtualization, performance testing, test automation, reference architectures, ansible automation written with Python, Perl and bash. MariaDB 10.3 Certified Associate (DBA) July 2019 MariaDB operational support for dozens of tier-1 customers using MariaDB 5.2 – 10.5 SQL, Perl, bash, Python 2.6, client-facing account management, database architecture design and support.

Lead developer and architect of server orchestration abstraction layer with Python 2.6. Enabling full life-cycle management (provisioning, package installation, configuration, hydration, patching, disaster recovery and decommissioning), of Oracle Fusion SaaS product on Public Cloud, FedRamp and select private clouds. Gathered requirements from distributed teams, designed and coded the class hierarchy, consumable APIs, documented the platform, devised CICD pipelines and worked with internal security and infrastructure teams to achieve a successful deployment with 110,000 servers spread over 20 data centers and 7 regions.Enabled systems management through internal Slack channels by way of a chat-bot using Python 3. Provided an architecture and APIs for internal teams to integrate with and enforce corporate security standards. Commands executed through Salt orchestration layer (above.) Worked with leadership teams to define security standards for cloud-based chat tools. Commands executed through this were secured with custom multi-factor authentication layers. Callback and pub/sub MQ-based RPCs were further secured by multi-level (manager and above) MFA-authorizations.Integrated Oracle directory services’ “break-glass” functionality into existing Python 2 (puppet) automation. Lead the Fusion Ops team on auditing their bash and python technical debt, defined CICD and standardized conventions for future development. Reduced operational overhead for 1,000s of offshore Ops engineers and eliminated 65,000+ scripts from their codebase. Co-inventor of Oracle owned patent #15/681084.Associating Voting Sessions with Tabulation Machines in Electronic Voting Fusion Ops Engineering Excellence Award, 2015, 2016 & 2017 Python 2.6 & 3, flask, jinja templates, ZeroMQ, tornado, bash, Perl, SQL, MySQL

SME for Oracle 9 to MariaDB 10.1 migration. The State of New Jersey’s voter registration system databases were modernized and migrated to a new platform. Wrote Perl scripting to extract Oracle data and migrate into new structure. 6TB database featured 13 remote databases, simultaneous writes, and remained functional during frequent network outages.Directed elected and administrative staff on updated processes, trained junior Sys. Admin and DBA staff. Provided technical project plans and summaries to internal and external customers. Responsible for all data related deliverables of the $12M contract. Delivered 3 months ahead of schedule. Designed tailored database architectures in products for New Jersey, Florida, Michigan, Canada and the Emmys using MySQL / MariaDB, Postgres, MongoDB and Cassandra,  13-site, multi-directional, and fault-tolerant multi-master replication topology deployed and maintained. Wrote DB ETL processes and worked with application developers to optimize and improve DB performance all written in Perl.

Provided tier-2 support, weekly technical project review, and database related architecture guidance for high-end customers such as Kaplan, TalentWise and Otterbox. Secondary duties for clients in other practices and other open-source team members as needed.Direct, hands-on, administration of remote client systems through VPN. Setup new instances of MySQL, Galera clustering, server optimization, backup and recovery monitoring and maintenance. Worked directly with clients on existing problems, capacity planning and designing future solutions as requested. Various versions of MySQL, Percona and MariaDB. 10,000+ TPS environments, +1TB database sizes common. Provided 24x7 on-call support & technical account management.

As a highly ranked member of the esteemed Merchants@ (3rd party seller) org of Amazon I frequently found myself working with multiple teams to coordinate solutions. We were looked upon as SMEs for Six Sigma / Operational Excellence practices, at-scale infrastructure planning advice, deep troubleshooting, software release scheduling and execution, among many other tasks. Additionally I served as 2nd and 3rd tier incident response for our org. We represented M@ for the greater SVP-level Ops Review meetings and hosted and ran M@'s own weekly (VP level) review meeting.I created the runbook used by the org for migrating all services off bare-metal or internal VM infrastructure and on to AWS. This was a prescriptive mapping of modules and sub-systems into AWS PaaS offerings. Built the metrics collection, aggregation and reporting process for the Merchants At recruiting team. Led several high priority initiatives for the team such as high severity ticket reduction, migration of our team's services to AWS, recruiting performance, alert management and automated response (aka self-healing) systems. Ruby on Rails stack (MySQL backend) used heavily by the ops team to monitor internal metrics. Responsible for reporting organizational metrics at SVP level weekly. Role focused engineering background on solving Amazon-scale systems monitoring and smart automatic break-fix resolution. Designated organization technical SME for all VM to AWS migration projects.

Part of Tavant Technologies team which built the optionmonster.com trading platform. As the principal database administrator I helped product owns and development teams define schemas, facilitated ETL processes for integration efforts, made recommendations for infrastructure sizing and capacity planning and was accountable for the availability and performance of the system. These datasets included trading account, financial instrument and account position records.Responsible for weekly build testing and release. Worked with QA and engineers developing automation to test in QA and Performance environment. Oversaw the deployment of these changes through to production.Integrated SugarCRM software with production databases to prioritize and route inbound support requests. This enabled higher priority accounts to get immediate attention automatically through the phone system. Added business metrics into the customer-support CRM tool. Developed MySQL monitoring solutions in Python 2. Wrote cell-phone modem interface for sending text / SMS messages programmatically. Worked with development and test teams often to coordinate improvements and deployments throughout 4 supported environments. Principal database architect, MySQL DBA. 5 DB clusters, +2TB DB, 7,000+ QPS, heavily sharded multi-master replication model running MySQL 5.

Architected data warehouse for Freeservers.com, the web hosting arm of United Online. This 13TB monster provided marketing teams with traffic analysis for the over 4M properties hosted. This project required the design of a log collection mechanism capable of handling 250M hits per day and 3 billion hits per month on average. A mod_perl module provided stateless web server operations and streamlined logging mechanics to achieve the goal. MySQL's NDB cluster used to provide a high-throughput temporary storage before summarization & normalization ETL jobs loaded the final warehouse.

Created an Enterprise-grade Internet marketing, sales, analytics and e-Commerce platform for the MLM industry. A robust templating system enabled A/B testing and completely dynamic websites with user customizable sales funnel. We started with just 3 of us in the company and grew it to over 50 people in 4 years with > $12M in annual revenue . I built my own development team and executed the traditional manager role while also keeping my hands in the code daily.Here I built contact management, automated follow-up, traffic analysis, remedy like help-desk, component-oriented website engines, traffic / ad network routing systems which could still today stand on their own as a product.Implemented extremely high throughput mail systems for marketing and member notifications. Delivering 22M messages each day before 6am. User defined follow-up processes would deliver within SLAs and were destination time-zone aware; ensuring optimal campaign performance. Partnered with major email providers at the time for higher delivery rates and automatic removals / blacklisting of addresses.