Director Of Engineering, Platform Stats & Analytics
Prague, Cz
• Primarily supported the Search Platform’s online software distribution, funnel analysis, A/B testing, and infrastructure• Re-designed stats collection and reporting to enable SOX Compliance, auditing, globally distributed clusters, new reporting, increasing capacity by a factor of 10, reduced report generation time to seconds from several minutes.• Primarily responsible for growing and engineering and design team from 2 to 22, largely composed of MIT graduates and San Francisco Academy of Art students. I was directly involved with finding, recruiting, onboarding, and retaining the majority of the members of this team. Established a Design Internship with the Academy of Art, and a Development Internship with MIT.• Introduced new technology to the company; Django, MongoDB for quick prototyping, Chef for provisioning, and GIT DVC.• Created the framework for prioritizing and onboarding new publishers, advertisers. Defined levels of service, customization. Communicated platform capabilities, constraints, and opportunities to stakeholders, including VP, Directors, and their staff.• Migrated infrastructure from Rackspace to AVG, balancing uptime, supported technology, and change management. • Designed and managed a team that implemented a predictive analytics system to project the value of users acquired through new traffic sources based on historical engagement data, using Hadoop, R, rpy2, and Tableau for exploration