An accomplished engineering manager, software engineer, researcher and academic with more than 15 years of industry experience. Renowned for building/managing high-performing teams and architecting/driving transformative projects, specializing in Big Data, FinTech, AI/ML, HPC, Cloud APIs, and Distributed Systems technologies. Passionate about solving real world problems, particularly in commerce, retail, health, and education.• 4 years of management experience, building high• 3 years of management experience, building high performing, diverse, and cohesive teams.• 6 years of leadership experience in Microsoft’s Commerce Platform org, developing and operatingscalable, globally compliant billing and payout services, and data pipelines.• Experience building and launching multiple V1 projects at Microsoft, including Azure ML,Azure Percept, Partner Payouts, and JEDI (Fed Gov) projects.• Domain expertise in building data pipelines for real-time and historical financial transactionsdata, employing a hybrid of streaming, batch and serverless compute.• 4 years of experience at Microsoft Incubation Labs implementing HPC math, statistics andmachine learning libraries, cloud services and runtimes in a startup-like environment.• 3 years of experience leading the development of one of the fastest FFT libraries using dynamiccode generation and optimization techniques for multicore and SIMD architectures.• Adjunct faculty member at University of Washington and Lake Washington Institute (LWTech),teaching courses on such topics as Algorithms, Discrete Math, Web development, Python, SQLand Java. Also served on the curriculum committee for a new BAS degree at LWTech.