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San Francisco, California, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led efforts on Bond, a Microsoft-developed open source platform for working with schematized data (https://github.com/Microsoft/bond). Oversaw adoption within Azure and across Microsoft, built roadmap for enhancements and improvements, and incorporated support for gRPC. Contributed directly on development, architecture, and code review.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Formed the ASG Shared Data Platform team (approx. 100 engineers), bringing together assets across Bing, Bing Ads, Skype, and Engineering Experiences to build a division-wide platform for data processing. Led onboarding of various parts of ASG, including Office 365, Bing, Skype, and Cortana, as well as other teams across Microsoft. Coordinated roadmap across many data platform, data science, and experimentation organizations across the company. Spearheaded investments in Spark, Kafka, and Storm to increase capabilities around real-time data processing and machine learning.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Managed the Bing Ads Business Intelligence development team, overseeing the work of 80+ engineers and dotted-line manager of 40+ remote engineers. Drove efforts to significantly improve the stability and latency of the core BI data processing pipeline and the billing infrastructure. Invested in a new commodity hardware-based SQL platform that resulted in large cost savings and significant query latency gains for data warehouse querying. Spun up efforts in near real-time processing leveraging Kafka and Storm to increase capabilities around real-time data processing and machine learning.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Managed the Delivery Engine development team for Paid Search Advertising, overseeing the work 80+ engineers. Merged efforts between the existing architecture and next-generation infrastructure. Led team to deliver significant improvements in key metrics around latency, availability, and shipping velocity, which in turn drove major improvements in divisional revenue.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led multi-team effort to significantly re-architect the Bing Ads delivery engine, guiding and overseeing the work of 40+ engineers spanning 4 teams with the broader Bing Ads organization to achieve significant improvements in speed of iteration for relevance and infrastructure work. Contributed directly on development, architecture, and code review.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Managed the Bing Index Serve team, 50+ developers who build and operate the core index serving backend for Bing web search and other large-scale inverted index applications across the Online Services Division, with focus on operability, scalability, latency, agility, and support for relevance and other partner teams. Spearheaded efforts to incorporate SSDs into the Bing data centers. Direct technical leadership drove major architectural initiatives to rework key infrastructural components and to improve overall code velocity across Bing and Ads organization. Developed architectural roadmap that carried the team forward for several years. Original production engineering sponsor of the Catapult FPGA project.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led a small team working on performance and core improvements to the Bing index serving platform. Initiated first major rework of core index format to achieve higher performance and increased flexibility, including significant design and coding contributions.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Continued development of the Powerset index generation and serving system to provide greater performance, stability, operability, and scalability, serving as the backend for the Bing Reference Vertical.

Us

Hired and managed engineering organizations for Search and Platform. Directly managed team of 14 engineers, providing technical direction, management, and mentoring. Set overall company development practices and oversaw development of core infrastructure to support code life-cycle (development, test, release, deployment) and rapid machine installation and configuration for large-scale data center deployment. Provided technical input and oversight for many development efforts across company, with an emphasis on performance and scalability. As search architect, designed core search functionality for semantic search system. Led development of query execution systems including significant direct development work and oversaw development of content processing pipeline, indexing system, and query runtime system.As a member of the executive team, engaged in corporate planning, strategic decision-making, generation of overall hiring plan and organizational structure, board meetings, investor presentations. business development, and partnership discussions. Actively sponsored and oversaw the initial development of HBase, a scalable data store built as part of the Hadoop ecosystem. Strong involvement with Thrift, a lightweight cross-language serialization and communication framework open sourced by Facebook.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Provided technical oversight across the web search organization, reporting to Chief Architect for web search. Led design, development, and deployment of query rewriting framework and supported the development of framework applications. Planned and oversaw rollout of major hardware and OS transitions across web search organization. Set out major technical directions for web search organization.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Managed a team of 3 senior developers, working on longer term efforts to improve runtime query system. Set technical directions for the runtime. Redesigned core query handling system for greatly increased flexibility and extensibility. Managed cross-functional efforts spanning the runtime, content, relevance, and research organizations. Oversaw hardware evaluation, total cost modeling, and determination of hardware directions for the web search team. Member of Search & Marketplace architecture steering group. Consulted with Mail and Social Search teams on issues of scalability, resulting in substantial cost efficiency gains for both teams.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Managed team of 8 developers, building and improving core web search runtime infrastructure. Oversaw all technical work on the core backend infrastructure while making individual contributions to query parsing and query handling code, performance trouble-shooting, and improvements to service availability. Key contributor to process of rolling out Yahoo's new backend infrastructure, replacing Google.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

First technical hire onto Inktomi search team after close of acquisition by Yahoo!.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Continued development of I-drive.com software for enterprise customers.

Technical leadership for startup building large-scale consumer-facing storage systems delivered as a 24/7 online service.

Us

Initiated and developed top-selling Mac utilities and applications, including:* RAM Doubler (virtual memory enhancement), winner of MacUser Best New Software Editor's Choice Award and Byte Magazine Award of Merit* Speed Doubler (faster 68K emulation for PowerPC), winner of Mac World Class Award * Virtual PC (full PC emulator for MacOS), winner of MacUser Editor's Choice Award