FullStory is an amazingly powerful digital intelligence platform that helps our e-commerce and SaaS customers create better online experiences for their customers. Using it is like putting on glasses for the first time - suddenly you can see exactly what's happening, and why. I'm the lucky person who gets to help the stellar engineering team build and deliver it!

Recruited by Sequoia to lead engineering following their $62M series B, and chartered to re-architect the service to scale 100x with viable per-unit economics.Designed and implemented a highly performant geo datastore atop Bigtable and S2. Performed a live migration of data and traffic from legacy architecture on AWS (PHP, Elasticache, Dynamo) to new architecture on GCP (Go, kubernetes, Bigtable), reducing cloud costs by an order of magnitude.Migration from monolith to microservices allowed us to scale the engineering team. Opened and staffed SF engineering office in addition to Atlanta team.More technical details captured here: https://medium.com/yik-yak-eng

Designed and built out the teams and technologies that power the backend of Android, seeing it from v0 to over 1B devices (now over 2.5B!). Also led Android’s Advanced Technology group and a team to improve mobile advertising.Some highlights:- Google Cloud Messaging, supporting billions of push messages per day- Google App sync and offline support for Gmail, Calendar, Contacts, YouTube, and more- Android Market, the original app store; then Google Play to sell apps, movies, music, and ebooks- Payments, in-app payments, and carrier billing APIs and integrations- Over-the-air updates for Android OS and apps- Online store for buying Nexus One, the original Google phone- Speech-driven Q&A and actions, launched 2012 Google I/O- Facial recognition for actors in Google Play Movies- Android Advertising ID and policies, to improve consumer privacy- Advanced feature flag system for controlling billions of devices