Head of engineering responsible for managing all of engineering, along with the overall architecture, development, and delivery of all aspects of our mobile and web experiences.• Architected all aspects of our cloud infrastructure, application services and web / mobile applications.• Designed and integrated our continuous integration and delivery pipelines. Code is committed to commit, built and tested by Travis, packaged into docker containers, and deployed to our AWS infrastructure using terraform.• Built a set of go based gRPC micro services to power our API.• All containers are fronted by envoy proxies to capture metrics, handle servicediscovery, and service communication in a retry-able, fault tolerant manner.• Data is persisted to a terraformed MongoDB cluster, and events are passed via Kafka.• Designed and built an iOS mobile experience in Swift

Designed, developed, and ran the cloud delivery platform for the IBM Watson Developer Cloud services. Built a highly scalable, resilient, and fallout tolerant cloud service platform, capable of handling hundreds of millions of requests per day while achieving 99.9% uptime• Lead engineer of a new data collection platform designed to transport, store, and query large volumes of training data for various Watson Services, focused on scalability, security, and compliance.• Developer core cloud integration components responsible for managing the lifecycle of cloud service instances. Provided a means for integration into various PaaS systems based on the Open Service Broker specification.• Build end-to-end configuration application profiting a self-service UI for tenants to use to board new services on to the platform, rapidly make configuration updates, and publish services for consumption• Provided technical direction to the Watson Research teams in all aspects of cloud native development, implementation, packaging, continuous integration and delivery

Designed and developed innovative security tools for use by the IBM CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) and CSIRT (Computer Security Incident Response Team).• Architected and developed a large scale distributed analytics platform based on the Hadoop suite of middleware, optimized for searching, reporting, and analyzing security data• Created a real time user resolution service which was able to resolve IP and MAC addresses in sub 100 milliseconds over billions of DHCP and VPN log events• Lead an international team designing and developing an incident tracking tool, allowing CSIRT to track different types of security incidents through configurable remediation workflows

Architected and designed innovative cloud solutions in ever aspect of cloud infrastructure as a service. Driving development from prototype to product.• Led the design and development of IBMs first cloud offering, IBM Smart Cloud. Designed the core middleware technologies responsible for resource allocation, business integration, and user management.• Implemented support for the TOSCA (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications) OASIS standard in IBMs Workload Deployer• Created a large scale, highly distributed, secure pub/sub cloud messaging system• Architected and developer a modular web-delivery technology, capable of composing web UIs in a pluggable, theme-able, and configurable manner.

Worked as part of an innovation team tasked with creating innovative prototypes for internal consumption, which were focused on employee productivity and collaboration.• Maintained the Voice over IP plug-in for Lotus Sametime.• Developed a companion web application allowing consumers to visualize their call data, identifying trends, suggesting cost saving alternatives, meter usage, and generate report data• Designed a pilot reputation system leveraging social concepts and collaborative tagging in order to provide peer based ratings on specific topics of expertise• Created a dynamic charting widget for employees to easily embed allowing for dynamic drill-downs, and visualization of data

Worked as part of the development team for the ODI:RM (On Demand Infrastructure: Resource Models) component within the IBM Virtualization Engine.• Led a team of 5 developers through the design and development of key sub components• Authored HLD (High Level Design) and LLD (Low Level Design) documents• Leveraged J2EE technologies to deliver product quality code