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I lead a large team of brilliant engineers responsible for the architectural scalability of the company, including multiple complicated machine learning pipelines. We are responsible for the design, implementation, and ownership of essentially all layers of infrastructure and tooling below application code. This includes:• Self-managed Kubernetes, including custom controller work and upstream contributions• A featureful and performant CI/CD pipeline, providing a reliable GitOps interface and fast easy rollbacks• Monitoring via Prometheus• Stats via Graphite• High volume, reliable log transport and aggregation via Kafka• Unique and streamlined tools for developer environments• Safely self-serve edge routing configurationWhen I joined the company, a production deployment was an hours-long semimanual process, which happened 3-4 times per week. Through a combination of the above tools and technical and cultural leadership driving engineering teams toward better patterns, this has now changed; we now perform over a thousand production deployments per week.

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Mountain View, Ca, Us

Led a team of 18 engineers responsible for the scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability of many of Google's ad optimization tools. Architecture, monitoring, testing, capacity forecasting, and disaster recovery planning. This involved collaborating effectively with other engineering teams across four continents. Handled services through every phase of their live cycles: initial design, feature implementation, maintenance, and graceful retirement.Led and participated in a 24/7 oncall rotation, with an emphasis on preemptively minimizing alerts through resilient design and rigorous implementation practices, reserving pages for genuine emergencies. Consistently reduced page frequency while improving service availability.Responsible for the technical integration of many of Google’s acquisitions. This required rapid adaptability to the situation and needs of each company, while still providing consistency and infrastructure reuse across them.Performed hundreds of interviews, and made several hundred hiring, staff allocation, and promotion decisions. Managed the rapid growth of teams while maintaining consistent culture and spirit.Responsible for the career development, performance management, and compensation planning for a large and growing team.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Designed, implemented, and maintained the server and storage arrays that handled the log aggregation, traffic analysis, customer reporting, and billing transactions for all of Yahoo’s advertising and that of several thousand customers.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Architected and provided infrastructure for all internal and user-facing services for a steady stream of child companies. This involved balancing efficient reuse of resources with security and capacity segregation of individual companies, while moving quickly enough to not impede ramp-up time.

Implemented nationwide dialup Internet access for ~80,000 users. Designed, implemented, and maintained infrastructure for email, ad serving and targeting services, and log collation and analysis. Designed and wrote configuration management and content distribution tools for multiplatform server farm.

Provided mail, secure web hosting, ftp, and dns services for all client sites, along with fileservice, backups, content management and publishing tools for all staff.

Provided mail, secure web hosting, ftp, and dns services for all client sites, along with fileservice, backups, content management and publishing tools for all staff.

Provided mail, secure web hosting, ftp, and dns services for all client sites, along with fileservice, backups, content management and publishing tools for all staff.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Provided Tier 3 support for frame relay and ISDN clients. Implemented the original intranet used by all tech support staff for collaboration and knowledge sharing.