Chris Merrill Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

* member of Applied Science Infrastructure team, optimizing pipelines for delivering machine learning models to production* Project management for a successfully completed production COLO migration for Nexxen TV (around half a dozen teams dev teams involved + DBA, IT, DevOps, Data Center teams)* Design a next generation Supply Space Architecture for our SSP & present a detailed phased plan to validate & deploy it* Full stack green field development on our Linear & Digital Advertising Monitoring & Observability team

Redwood City, Ca, Us

* Project management for a successful AWS to COLO migration effort (around half a dozen teams dev teams involved + DBA, IT, DevOps, Data Center teams)* Led maintenance, development & handling of escalations across three product lines* Successfully led an incremental architecture migration effort over two years across half a dozen teams, while the product was in production* Successfully led a team & coordinated with a half dozen other teams across 7 timezones to launch a large scale broadcaster VOD advertising platform

Redwood City, Ca, Us

* Leading a team & helping to coordinate with other teams across 7 timezones that are designing & implementing a large scale broadcaster VOD advertising platform* Led a team that built a templating framework to support automation of standard operating procedures at advertising agencies. it enables bulk automated creation of trafficking entities (campaign, line item, ad, creative, and so on) from a user-definable custom format CSV that represents a media plan.* Led an API & UI team that designed & implemented an app that enables campaign managers & others to traffic advertising on a social media network, both programmatically & manually through a web front-end* Implement Cookie Synch Functionality with Brightroll SSP for our DSP* Complete an SSP Integration with LiveRail for our DSP* Developed a HAL / HATEOAS / REST API framework, extending the core functionality provided by Spring Boot & Spring Boot Actuator to expedite the development of many OAuth2 secured discoverable web services* Developed part of a series of RESTful API servers that enable fully automated ad trafficking & optimization for Adconion's proprietary ad serving platform* Adconion Media Group was acquired by Amobee in 2014

London, Gb

* Successfully led a continuous delivery project that greatly reduced production launch times* One of the senior engineers on a team that designed, implemented, and successfully launched a state of the art, contractual timezone sensitive time parting system for ad campaigns.* Technical team lead of for an audience segment integration with The Trade Desk. Completed successfully and launched in Sept 2013.* Technical team lead of a team of 4 engineers, myself included, for a publisher passback feature. Worked with a Product Manager to clarify requirements and project scope, gathered and provided estimates. Implemented ad server functionality & reviewed data, reporting, and trafficking patches implemented by other engineers to ensure they met requirements. Project completed successfully and was launched in March 2013.* Helped determine Cassandra Performance Testing strategy in an EC2 Cassandra cluster I helped set up and manage* Netflix Priam github contributor (submitted a github issue)* Deploy and configure DataStax OpsCenter Community Edition in EC2 to monitor a Cassandra cluster during performance testing* Cassandra open source contributor (patch approved for 1.2.0beta1 release)* Reverse-engineer, document, and fix problems with Cassandra node repair process in production (create custom Cassandra tar.gz / rpm with additional logging, recommend config changes, help determine cluster sizing strategy)* Build from source, install, and configure postgres91, use pg_update to migrate Ad Server in a Box data warehouse DB from postgres83 to 91, verify audit test pass, document migration pathTechnologies: PostGRES, java, JMS, Spring 3.X, Mercurial, svn, Apache Tomcat 6.X, Cassandra, Netflix Priam, Amazon EC2, Amazon SimpleDB, Eclipse, Ruby, Puppet, Hiera, Facter

London, Gb

* Lead engineer on a team responsible for maintaining and extending a large very heavily customized salesforce.com deployment that integrates with upstream and downstream business intelligence systems. * Reverse engineered and migrated a custom Flex, Java, Hibernate, and POSTGRES data warehouse based payments and invoicing system to one running in Salesforce. * Wrote a RESTful service to expose MicroStrategy report data as JSON using MicroStrategy's WEB SDK.* Technologies: Eclipse, Subversion, Mercurial, git, python, Java, Apex, VisualForce, MicroStrategy Web SDK, Selenium, JIRA, Crucible, TestNG, postgres 8.X, Mac OS, Safari, Firefox with Firebug & Firefinder plugins, Ant, Maven, salesforce.com platform, macports, homebrew, Jenkins, artifactory.

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

* Dev lead in the architecture and central engineering group at a Fortune 500 client, designer and implementer of a modular skinnable web site platform that has been used to support several large and small ad-revenue driven entertainment web sites across multiple business units. The first site running on the platform launched flawlessly in mid-2011 and a new, larger, site (2 million unique users / month) launched in early 2012. * Designed, implemented, and optimized a highly successful ad-revenue driven entertainment web site that has traffic in excess of a million hits a month for a Fortune 500 client. Since its launch in October 2009, there have been no site outages or major issues with the site. * Technologies: Apache Tomcat 6.X, Apache Web Server 2.2 with mod_jk, Varnish Cache 2.1.3, JBOSS RESTeasy (a RESTful service framework), Spring Framework 3.X, Hibernate 3, Java 6, SQL Server 2005, T-SQL, Javascript, Apache Tiles, JSON, Dojo, Freemarker, XPath, Groovy, JSP, Maven, Ant, Apache Archiva, Perforce, Linux 2.6.X, Windows XP and the client's proprietary content management system.

* Collaborated with Uri Kabiri, a well known music producer in Israel, as a lyricist on three songs.* Developed material with three singers, some of which was publicly performed in New York City.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Developed features for four versions of the market leading virtual workplace server product using C++, COM, ASP, JavaScript, HTML and SQL. My focus was primarily on user interface level functionality.

Developed features for an ERP connectivity product using C++, COM, VBScript, JavaScript, ASP and Internet Information Server.