Making the technology work.

Making Technology Work

- Bridging engineering with business owners at Upwork.COM. Engineering and product ownership of Upwork internal tools for:o Customer Support Serviceso Risk Management, Trust and Safety, Marketplace Quality. o Billing & Analyticso Enterprise Serviceso Security, Billing, Analytics and other tools- Strategizing with director and VP level business owners, triaging product requirements, providing updates on the progress, establishing and managing expectations of feature delivery, dodging disap- pointments and misunderstandings.- Recruiting and scheduling engineering resources, planning architectural changes, providing engi- neering leadership and mentorship, managing technical debt- Deploying & managing production servers, troubleshooting issuesTechnical experience with Perl, PHP, Java, NodeJS, AWS, EC2, ElasticCache, Swagger, JSON, YAML, PostgreSQL, JIRA, OAuth2, microservices in the cloud

Helped a startup in travel/airfare space to take off the ground, including:- Managing the technology expectations of business owners and investors- Finding and recruiting engineering, QA and product talent- Establishing engineering, automated QA, CI/CD processes and systems- Devops, release and change management- Owning relationships with 3rd party technology providers- Making everything possible to help the company succeedTechnical experience with NodeJS, npm/yarn, React, Redux, Sails.JS, continuous integration and devel- opment(CI/CD), BitBucket, JIRA administration, ElasticCache, Clojure, Docker, NGINX, JIRA

Deputy of CTO, management of offshore software development team including:- Recruiting development talent- Prioritizing tasks and scheduling of engineering resources- Identifying project bottlenecks- Providing progress reports and ownership of QA group

* PBXPilot, a production grade VoIP PBX derivative of Asterisk OSS. Design focus on scalability, RTP routing and firewall traversal. Acknowledged contributor to Asterisk OSS. Web frontend is PHP+Apache. * Management of offshore software development team - scheduling development resources - searching, interviewing and recruiting development resources - assigning tasks, priorities, establishing deliverables - providing time and resource estimates for development projects - releases and configuration management * HostPilot control panel. In 1997 HostPilot was the first web based control panel is a control panel on Internet. HostPilot is the heart of Intermedia.NET business. The technologies include -- MSIIS, Microsoft Transaction and COM+ Server, FrontPage extensions, MSSQL , Microsoft Exchange Server, Active Directory, DNS Servers, management of Linux servers, sophisticated billing system.