Two initiatives that reduced AWS costs by $400,000 dollars/year. Ask me how. AWS RDS MySQL migration to support microservice architecture.Growth experiments to increase subscription revenue.New tools: NewRelic, Splunk

Expand, upgrade and maintain AWS hosted RESTful data services for 1 million monthly active users, 75 million daily requests. 5 years AWS experience with ElasticBeanstalk, EC2, RDS, SQS, SES, ElasticCache, ElasticSearch, Lambda, Cloudfront. Architect for cross team project involving e-commerce, identity, entitlements, content and 3rd party integration. Mentoring new employees. Elasticsearch migration. Database schema design. Python 2.7 to Python 3 service migration. Identity migrations (custom to Auth0/Okta).Resource migration to new office (Office 365 tenant and Active Directory migrations to Meredith, on-site servers moved to AWS).

(formerly Cozi Inc.)Services developer for Cozi Family Organizer phone and web app: MySQL database tables, SQLAlchemy, Python, RESTful APIs, AWS and the occasional Javascript.Designed new auth system to support Oauth2 integration with Amazon Alexa.Performance improvements to reduce our front end REST service instance count (and cost) by 50%.Designed and implemented live migration of 96k users from MyRecipe.com to the Cozi recipe box. This included personal recipes and meals as well as publicly shared recipes and meals.Other projects included updating our recipe scraper to support schema.org recipes, new list APIs, new people and settings features, a system to precompute future app configurations, designing a new auth system for a new product using Amazon Cognito and becoming the primary web developer for my.cozi.com.

Hybrid Storage Services, Windows Server groups (Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2).Reliability testing for a new Microsoft Azure service. Fault Model Analysis and fault injection using remote PowerShell and managed code injection.Security testing for CBAC and Work Folders (threat model analysis, file and protocol fuzz testing, DoS testing)Feature ownership included Claims Based Access Control (CBAC) file system minifilter, Work Folders HTTPS protocol, Quota service, Storage Reports. Maintained selfhost/dogfood deployments.

Worked on CE automotive platforms for the Automotive Business Unit. This included the Ford Sync and Fiat's Blue & Me products. Areas of responsibility included Media Transport Protocol (Zune), WMDRM, Direct Show, Radio, AVRCP Bluetooth profile, SMS over the Hands Free Profile and a SAPI compliant speech recognition service.

Worked on many device drivers for various versions of Windows. Wrote firmware for a Cypress Ez-USB based access control device, TUSB3210 port switch and an ARM auxiliary display. Built a custom SNMP agent for a Windows CE barcode scanner.

Designed, marketed and developed our first physical card game game, “Ascension at Firepeak”.

Built API and database schema for New Product Showcase and Manufacturer's Representatives directory for the National Housewares Manufacturers Association web site.Used Tcl, Vignette, Oracle, MS SQL Server, ASP.

Built distributed, context sensitive, data mining, SEC filing parser and production data store used by FreeEdgar.com and supplied to customers such as Reuters America and Standard & Poors.