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Virginia, United States

Santa Clara, California, Us

- Define product requirements that enable customers and expand capabilities- Shape policies and direction where industry approaches and best practices fail to exist- Research and develop architectures for potential product growth- Develop and deliver content internally and externally around new features and functionality in products and OSS projects across channels including conferences, recorded video, blogs, and podcasts.Products:- DataStax Enterprise (DSE)- OpsCenterOSS Projects:- DataStax Kubernetes Operator for Apache Cassandra (cass-operator)- K8ssandra

University Of Richmond, Va, Us

Charlottesville, Virginia, Us

- Lead the Technical Architecture team for a search based application, involving millions of documents, on Apache Solr and DataStax Enterprise. - Trained team members on Apache Cassandra, Solr Cloud, and Apache Spark- Developed an analytics engine for identifying and flagging fraudulent transactions- Wrapped a cloud based VOIP call center provider's API for use with a metrics gathering system.- Created a tool for provisioning and managing Elasticsearch clusters on AWS.- Launched Trireme, a migration engine for managing Cassandra & Solr schemas

Mountain View, Ca, Us

- Architected large portions of the platform including data models, api endpoints, platform administration, and background tasks- Performed regular security audits and infrastructure updates- Distributed tasks and features across team members (taking into account strengths as well as growth opportunities)- Worked with QA to develop test plans and implement automated testing of certain components- Designed horizontally scalable processing system where tasks could be divvied up across many ephemeral machines- Reported regularly with C-level positions and provided engineering insight to other directors / departments- Developed and evaluated internal tools to increase productivity and visibility into the platform

- Assisted product with identification of technical requirements and implementation path- Met with third-party API providers to discuss technical requirements and capabilities- Architected the application from mock-ups all the way to implementation and background tasks

Mountain View, Ca, Us

- Deployed platform updates- Performed scheduled maintenance- Developed custom monitoring checks- Developed internal tools for visualizing platform status and state- Responded to alerts and mitigated customer impact- Daily reports and hand-offs to other team members requiring clear communication and documentation.

Richmond, Va, Us

- Trained team on distributed version control and best practices.- Advised direction for projects based on scale, budget, and specific platform requirements.- Migrated to Puppet-backed configuration and management system to ease fielding of new servers and addition to monitoring systems.- Designed and implemented server builds to host projects built with open source solutions including Ruby, Python, PHP, Apache, Nginx, Postfix, and MySQL.

- Developed large scale web applications to meet a variety of client demands (30 million plus impressions daily)- Developed an iOS application framework for connecting to dynamically generated web service backends- Systems administration, management and provisioning across various deployment stacks.- Developed scripts to handle common system administration tasks, including setting up Virtual Hosts and configuring base systems to a common updated platform ready for the project’s specific deployment stack.- Tuned MySQL servers to handle massive point in time traffic spikes and cache slow running read queries.- Multiple systems integration including Jetty, Tomcat, and Solr.

Developed a small iPhone and Android application to fit client needs. Short development cycle ending with two fully functioning applications being pushed to their respective app stores.

Richmond, Va, Us

- Performed system administration tasks across multiple physical and virtual servers, including integrations with the LDAP servers and SAN.- Optimized Apache servers to meet the demands of both the traffic and content being served.- Migrated production websites, databases, and enterprise content management system to new hardware with no downtime for public visitors or staff contributors.- Migrated their independent one-off ColdFusion scripts into a unified PHP backed framework.

Information Systems

Computer Science

High Performance Manufacturing And Engineering

Advanced Diploma, Engineering