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Draper, Ut, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Kin Insurance is a tech-driven home insurance company that provides personalized, affordable coverage for homeowners in disaster-prone areas through a seamless, direct-to-consumer model.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Scaled data infrastructure, reducing costs by 40% while enabling self-service analytics for 15+ teams. Led a $MM migration to Databricks, improving data lakehouse architecture and real-time processing. Mentored engineering teams, driving a 20% reduction in average lead time.

New York, New York, Us

Managed a global team of 45+ engineers to improve real-time scoring systems, increasing customer retention by 20%. Drove cost reductions and enhanced data infrastructure with Kafka and Databricks, cutting costs by 20% and launching innovative data-driven risk models.

Draper, Ut, Us

Define the vision, strategy and continuous value delivery of Pluralsight's analytics experiences.Coach, mentor, and guide the cross-functional (product management, product design, and software engineering) teams that build and support the company's analytics domain.Assemble, recruit, hire, and manage cross-functional teams of product managers, product designers, and software engineers.

Draper, Ut, Us

My team creates and implements architectures that handle mixed, high concurrency workloads from a heterogeneous user base who is always hungry for data! As a result, we get to work on a pretty awesome portfolio of rewarding projects.For instance, Hydra is an open source, reactive, asynchronous, distributed, real-time Data Ingestion Platform. A "multi-headed beast", Hydra was built using Scala, Akka, Kafka and Spark. We leverage Kafka’s commit logs as the underlying persistence layer, integrating stream processing with Akka Streams and Spark Structured Streaming, for both real-time analysis and data replication targeting different sinks, including S3, Kinesis, several RDBMs, Redis and Elastic Search. Check out the source code on Github at https://github.com/pluralsight/hydra.I also work very closely with product teams and engineers so together we can conceptualize, strategize and execute Pluralsight's data mission. Stuff like data governance and quality, dataset formats, schemas, best practices, product KPIs, scalable infrastructures, etc., are all fair game!

San Antonio, Texas, Us

I had the privilege to work on several high profiles projects and learn from stellar co-workers, while being part of an amazing work culture and environment.I started by providing technical leadership to the Rackspace Cloud Identity team, a RESTful API providing customers and Rackers secure authentication and authorization capabilities (https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com). This was a critical service within the cloud infrastructure that received over 30k requests/minute.After, I was responsible for defining the architectural direction of the Cloud Analytics platform across the entire development stack: OS administration, algorithms, Hadoop, APIs, schema design, all the way up to UI and data visualization.I also worked closely with strategic partners and product management teams to define the engineering backlog and the overall product roadmap for the analytics team.All this built on top of a pretty solid technology stack, which included Hadoop (back in the day where Hadoop was just so magical), Hive, Hbase, HDFS, Oozie, Sqoop, Pentaho, Kettle, Python, Java, Jersey, CXF, JSON, Atom, Maven, SOAP, WSDL, JAX-RS, Spring, JPA, AOP, Hibernate, EHCache, JGroups, Spring Data, Spring Hadoop, and many others.

Bristol, Ct, Us

Led a small team of software engineers and graphic designers to build a multi-tiered platform to assist with the real-time collection, storage and analysis of basketball data.The software was designed specifically for ESPN's basketball announcers to capture play-by-play data as the game was taking place. Needless to say, it was a lot of fun to develop!Development was done exclusively with the .Net framework. More specifically, C# and WCF to build the backend and service layers, and WPF for the graphical interface. Some of the frameworks we used included NHibernate 3, Spring.Net, LINQ, and MathDotNet.

Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Us

Team lead for the Mobile Magic project, the first mobile application built by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, created in a partnership with Verizon Wireless. The application, the first of its kind in both the mobile and entertainment industries, featured real-time notifications, GPS driven content, attractions and fast pass wait times, character meeting schedules and dining reservations.The core infrastructure consisted of a highly available, distributed content management platform accessed through a RESTful API using the RSS/Atom feed format.I also led some smaller projects including the creation of SOAP and Restful APIs for the OneSource content database.Technologies used included Oracle, WebSphere, JPA, CXF, Axis, JAX-WS, JAXB, Maven, Spring, Metro, XML, WSDL, SOAP, REST, JMS, ATOM, and others.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Had the unique opportunity to work with a stellar team in creating one of the most popular and technologically advanced open source B.I. tools available in the market today.I spent a good deal of my time working with the Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) platform, where I designed and implemented several enhancements while working closely with the open source community to define requirements and define goals for the product line.I also worked closely with both the B.I. server and the accompanying admin console.Some of the core frameworks and technologies we used included Java EE, Hibernate, Spring, Web Services, JMX, GWT, SWT, Tomcat, and many others.

Led a mid-sized engineering team through the many perils and pitfalls of building a multimillion-dollar software platform from the ground up at an early stage startup.Servant leader of a team of passionate and hard-at-work Java ninjas, back in the day when writing remote and local interfaces for EJBs was all the rage, WebSphere was one of the top application servers available, Struts was the defacto web framework for Java and front-end pages were built using a combination of HTML, Tapestry, and your own custom JSP tags. Good times!

I was a senior engineer part of a team tasked with the daunting challenge of rewriting the company’s e-learning software platform from Dynascript to Java, which turned out to be a huge learning and humbling experience for us all. Things didn't always look bright but we in the end we prevailed!Also implemented a custom reports engine, increasing company’s yearly revenue by 30%.

Masters, Business Administration

B.S., Molecular Biology

Bachelors, Computer Science