Bryan Mccormick Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Rocana provides next-generation monitoring software that eliminates scalability and performance limits for analyzing and visualizing all log, metric, and all other types of machine-generated data across your entire infrastructure—making it much easier and faster for IT staff to find, prevent, and solve problems.As a Software Engineering Manager, I am focused on creating a healthy, productive, distributed work environment for a team of engineers creating an awesome product. As a Technical Lead, I'm also responsible for architecture and technical direction of the application part of the Rocana solution.* Brought on as the first engineer, I then hired, managed and led a team of 7 engineers responsible for application development and testing. * Continually iterate on our process to improve team health and productivity, including how we handle scoping, prioritization, testing, code reviews, and releases.

San Francisco Bay Area

Rocana provides next-generation monitoring software that eliminates scalability and performance limits for analyzing and visualizing all log, metric, and all other types of machine-generated data across your entire infrastructure—making it much easier and faster for IT staff to find, prevent, and solve problems.As a Technical Lead, my responsibilities include guiding the technical direction and architecture of the application which is built on Hadoop, Kafka, Impala, Spark, and Solr.

Redwood City, Ca

Coraid delivered a software-defined storage and networking solution on scale-out hardware. My responsibilities included creating and testing optimized storage solutions for Global 2000 accounts. I functioned as a trusted advisor to sales and customers and was involved in scoping, design, testing, and deployment of Coraid Storage reference architectures for applications such as VMware, OpenStack, Red Hat, and ZFS.* Received Coraid Engineering Award for Excellence.* Setup public facing test lab that demonstrated using Coraid Storage with OpenStack. I characterized the performance of this solution under different workloads. * Completed the certification process to get Coraid on the VMware-certified storage hardware list.

Redwood City, Ca

Founder: JBMLabs was my own software engineering consulting firm. My focus was web application development and performance testing of solutions.

San Francisco Bay Area

Webshots was one of the largest public photo-sharing websites at the time with over 500M hi-res images and 40M registered users. Webshots served 55M pageviews a day to 3M unique users. My responsibilities included managing and mentoring both software and QA engineers, performing design and code reviews, and developing new features.* Hired and managed a team of 8 software and QA engineers. * Worked with QA engineers to significantly expand automated testing of the website.* Helped transition Webshots to American Greetings. This involved extensive training of AG employees and knowledge transfer of site operations.

Redwood City, Ca

YouService was a start-up focused on distributed address book management. YOUnite was a java application that allows a user to maintain accuracy and control of the data in their address book. My responsibilities included ownership of overall design and architecture of the YOUnite server infrastructure, creating specifications for and managing outsourcing teams in Russia and the US, set up and implementation of software engineering methodologies and maintained task queues and prioritization.* Hired and managed a team of 7 software and QA engineers.* Designed and developed a horizontally scalable, fault tolerant, core transaction engine for processing client transactions, APIs, data processing logic, server monitoring, and distributed address book logic.* Set up tools to support and promote good software development practices. These included code management strategies, continuous integration, JUnit for testing, and a custom framework for application performance monitoring.

San Francisco Bay Area

Webshots was one of the largest public photo-sharing websites at the time with 500M+ hi-res images and 40M registered users. Webshots served 55M page views a day to 3M uniques. My responsibilities included designing a scalable, maintainable website architecture. Maintaining a high level of code quality and standards and design for new applications.* Converted community portion of the website from static HTML and Perl CGI system to a Java MVC servlet application resulting in a completely dynamic website that more than tripled in page views from 12M per day to 45M over a six month period.* Designed and built photo search application that increased the searchable index size from 6M to 124M public photos, and served 3M search requests per day. * Designed and implemented a new dynamic ad serving engine for the website to allow sales to target specific portions of the site and types of users on a per request basis. When launched, the application served over 100M dynamic ad requests per day.* Designed and built flexible Data Access and Caching layer that vastly improved efficiency in serving dynamic pages. Applications were able to attain a very high cache hit ratios on most objects and vastly reduce the number of open database connections as well as overall load on the databases.

San Mateo, Ca

CMP is a publishing company that produced a large number of technical magazines and websites, such as Dr.Dobb’s Journal, Byte, Sys Admin, EETimes, and The Perl Journal. My responsibilities included software development, software analysis, debugging and optimization, Web Cluster Systems Administration, security analysis, policies and update, and systems design and planning.* Created Personalization system that allowed targeted ads, messages, and emails based on user demographics greatly increasing value of online advertising.* Designed and Built multi level user permissions / expiration system for creating premium sites and web subscriptions. This was used in both controlled circulation and paid subscription sites. * Custom search solution built upon the Lucene project and integrated into the content management system.