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Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Menlo Park, California, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Lead a broad range of engineering efforts for venture projects, enterprise integrations, and strategic acquisitions.• Developed web content mining, text processing, and machine learning software to ingest and enrich worldwide company data for LinkedIn's Economic Graph initiative.• Lead concept development and software engineering for Sales Navigator for Gmail (SN4G)• Data migration and Enterprise Platform integration for Sales Navigator• PointDrive acquisition integration• Content and Buyer Engagement Tech Lead• Winning team for 2 hack-day events• Co-authored 11 related patents

Your partner in developing data-driven products and great customer experiences. Delivering successful mobile, web, and analytics applications quickly and cost effectively with best of breed open source software, cloud platforms, and web technologies.• Scaled from individual consulting practice to team of engineers and designers• Hired and managed staff, financials, sales, and business operations• Lead numerous software engineering & analytics projects for startups and enterprise clients• Reached milestones required to close funding, acquire key customers, or expand internationallyHighlights: Northern Trust, Magic, StockTouch, Agilivant, JP Morgan Chase, Jama Software, Ojingo Labs, IRIS Distribution. Project details below.

Created financial market trading algorithms and automated execution software using quantitative and machine learning techniques.• Developed in Python with PyData stack for: ETL, data analysis, visualization, and modeling• Found Amazon EC2 spot pricing anomaly reducing cluster node costs to $0.01/hr each• Completed TenX startup accelerator program and raised $50,000 in seed trading capital• Partnered with futures brokerages, directed an estimated $500,000 in investor accounts• Algorithm placed #1 in monthly and quarterly leaderboards in 2013

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Lead team and performance optimization for Wealth Passport: industry-leading web-based platform for ultra-high-net-worth families and advisors• Implemented monitoring, web automation, and load testing with NewRelic, Neustar, and Selenium• Optimized browser caching, rendering, JavaScript, Java, Solr, and Oracle performance• Developed reference architecture to meet aggressive SLAs 10s of seconds faster than initial state

Lead banking, debit card, and remittance software development efforts.• Java and JavaScript web application and web services development• Integrations with Authorize.net and STAR for credit and debit card handling• Acquired by OrangeHook, Inc

Redeveloped the server, web service, and database architecture for StockTouch, an award-winning stock market data aggregation and visualization application for the iPhone and iPad.• Integrated social media, news, and market data providers for analysis and charting• Built web scraper and information extraction system to add ETF database• Designed and managed test and production Cassandra cluster on Amazon EC2• Implemented multi-threading, compression, caching, and custom binary file formats• Improved throughput 300% and expanded from 1000 to 10,000 stocks• Awarded iPad app of the year in Finance by Apple for 2011• Featured app in brick and mortar Apple Stores

Lead performance optimization efforts for JP Morgan Chase's treasury applications.• Performance analysis for server-side Java, Oracle, and JavaScript based web applications• Improved object serialization and compression algorithms reducing cpu and response times• Designed HTML, CSS, and JavaScript minification, consolidation, and compression system• Designed continuous performance monitoring with Java, Selenium, Hudson, and DynaTrace• Reduced response times as much as 40% internationally, by minutes in some cities• Acquired by VMware

Portland, Or, Us

• Developed web and server-side features in Java and JavaScript for leading requirements management application for Department of Defense, Federal Reserve, Intel, Wells Fargo, and ING• Championed test automation and continuous integration with Selenium, JUnit, and Hudson• Automated and load tested complex Ajax app to close large enterprise deal with Honeywell

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Lead web and server-side software engineering projects for Java financial and media management applications distributing content to online retailers, mobile services, and video on demand networks.• Hired and managed staff, implemented agile methodologies and DevOps infrastructure• Optimized data access patterns, queries, and hibernate caching improving report rendering by 5x• Designed 20+TB fault tolerant file store and media archive system• Improved sales ingestion processing millions of transactions, reduced errors to meet audits• Acquired by Sony Music subsidiary

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Lead web apps team and built flagship international banking terminal application localized into multiple languages and currencies.• Developed schema and transactional data layer with MySQL, Java, Spring, and JDBC• Developed web services and web application using Tomcat, Spring, Acegi, SOAP, and XML• Built fuzzy match international address search system with n-gram indexing, Lucene, and Python• Championed unit testing best practices using Java, JUnit, and HTMLUnit• IPO, then acquired by PayPal

Foster City, California, Us

• Developed Java reporting application for Visa Resolve Online: first real-time web application for credit card dispute management and resolution• Coordinated with major banks including: Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, and Wells Fargo improve analyst user experience and workflow

• Developed web applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl, Java, and Oracle SQL for rapidly growing startup• Assumed increasing responsibility and lead projects to scale from one email community website into three acclaimed advertising and publishing applications delivering two billion emails per month

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

• Developed web applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, and Perl for Asia-Pacific Java sales engineering team• Wrote shell scripts, administered UNIX servers, and performed large-scale data migrations to accommodate Sun's rapid growth

Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

• Developed web applications in HTML, JavaScript, and Perl for Instructional Computing: a resource for 16,000 students and faculty• Designed curriculum and lead software training courses for web development, Photoshop, and UNIX

Bachelor'S Degree, Philosophy

Certificates, Computer Science And Data Science