Volley Automation uses advanced software and robotic systems to efficiently densify parking garages, making garages smaller, fit more cars, or both. A semi or fully-automated EV-Charging solution is also integrated with the product and can be retro-fitted in existing parking garages.

Led a team 40-50 (frontend/backend software engineers, data engineering, dev ops, QA, and security teams) through new leadership and a tumultuous post-acquisition / IPO period. Drove hiring to grow engineering team by more than 20%. Set long-term objectives for new feature development and maintenance of electricity market bidding platform software; entered new ERCOT market; implemented automated CI/CD and QA pipelines; normalized containerization and IaC patterns; established role-based, centralized security and auth (AWS & Okta), et al. Established data engineering team, completed multiple database migrations and data warehouse scalability improvements. Fluence Digital accelerates the growth of green energy by using AI, advanced price forecasting, portfolio optimization and market bidding to help energy storage and renewable asset owners maximize revenue in electricity markets.

Senior technical leadership role left vacant by recent-exit of CTO and VP of Eng, followed by acquisition & aggressive growth. Technical lead for two cross-functional engineering teams that designed, built, and maintained an enterprise-scale streaming data platform for “human-in-the-loop” machine learning that consists of crowdsourced data annotation jobs, ML models, and scripts. Improved scrum process/ceremonies, technical documentation, release process, and SDLC. Wrote & deployed API documentation. Established a detailed 1-2 year technical roadmap & engineering objectives. Led RFC, security, architectural review, and other meetings. The Appen Data Annotation Platform provides data annotation tools for use cases as varied as: autonomous vehicle data, image labeling (finance, medical, agricultural, government), consumer product identification / categorization, search relevance, social data insights, data classification & enrichment, et al.

Technical lead for backend eng teams that maintain reputation management, surveys, and marketing automation systems for over 30,000 hotels worldwide. Predominant use of Spark, Akka, Cassandra, Kafka, PHP, React.js, Java, Scala, and Go. Microservice-based architecture with CI/CD deployment on colocated hardware, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform.

Technical lead of a small dev team in the design/development of a machine-learning based data pipeline for real-time fuzzy-matching millions of records of batch/streaming hotel guest data. Record linkage models built on Apache Spark MLlib, Cassandra, and Kafka, in mostly Java & Scala. Front-end tools written in React / Redux / Node.js.

Website, web software, and iOs app development on a contract basis. Lead dev on most projects, together with 5-10 other developers on a project-by-project basis. Technologies most often used: Obj-C, HTML*, CSS*, PHP, JS (JQuery, Node.js, Angular, et al), and Ruby. Occasional digital marketing and SEO consulting.

Co-founded a small US-owned company to develop an encrypted SIP-based voice/chat app for iOs and Android. Prototyping & dev specification, product management, managing development, financial planning, and strategy roles. Closed after parent-company acquisition / merger.

Launched http://www.oojo.com, and led a team of developers on a project providing a variety of services in online travel: http://www.dyninno.com. Oversight & management, technical planning and specifications for dev, operations & business strategy, SEO, and integrated digital marketing. 20-30% hands-on development.

Internet programming (PHP, Perl, Tcl, Javascript, MySQL & Apache, Unix) for www.mercantila.com. Templating systems, backend CRM and home-grown reporting tools akin to present-day GA, et al.

Designed, wrote specification for, and developed a customized intranet-based project management application for Latvia's biggest telecommunications company. Consolidated and redesigned several existing Oracle Web Server applications written in PL/SQL onto a LAMP stack.

Integral part in automating 75% of a 40-person content and webdev department, converted a site that contains over a million products from RDF (something like an outdated version of XML) to Oracle, designed and built a suite of applications in PHP and PERL for content management/acquisition and DB maintenance.