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San Jose, California, Us

Designed and implemented new developer productivity tools by analyzing common tasks and listening to developers, then integrating existing tools to automate common workflow actions via available REST APIs. Improved continuous integration pipelines by implementing rules and scripts to enforce recognized best practices during development. Mentored junior engineers in code design and code review best practices and policies.

San Jose, California, Us

Led the team responsible for supporting RokuOS firmware development used in all Roku streaming devices and TVs. Upgraded existing automated build systems and reduced build times by transitioning on-premises resources to a public cloud. Created new web-based tools that provided feedback to both individual developers and organizational leaders on development productivity, enabling the organization to add an additional 20 device types and over 400,000 builds a year. Collaborated with the development team to transition from a legacy revision control system to Git.

San Jose, California, Us

Designed the deployment and hosting strategy for production cloud services. Consolidated multiple cloud accounts and relocated services to improve management and security of core production and development efforts. Evangelized the use of Linux containers and microservices and converted existing services to run in containers on managed compute clusters. Upgraded the existing continuous integration system for improved uptime and reliability. Enhanced development resources by implementing a hybrid cloud solution. Developed new data analysis pipelines for customer-generated telemetry and data.

Waltham, Ma, Us

Lead and project managed a team responsible for creating the infrastructure that supports the rapid development and deployment of applications in Amazon Web Services with 99.99% high availability and security. Designed and implemented Kanban and Agile development practices used by both development and operations teams. Led the team through security processes to achieve SOC 2 compliance for the software-as-a-service product. Mentored and educated traditional software engineering teams on the requirements for hosting highly available, cloud-based products, helping to lead the company wide effort to transform to cloud-based delivery of software and customer value. Shepherded the team through major technology changes from traditional server technologies to newer technologies such as Cassandra and Kafka.

Waltham, Ma, Us

Designed and implemented the development infrastructure to support continuous, rapid development of both mobile clients (iOS and Android) and Linux server software. Championed a peer code-review process to promote social coding concepts and higher quality code that was adopted by the entire mobile and server divisions.Leading a small team, prioritize, assign and drive infrastructure and operational improvements for services hosted in Amazon Web Services to support greater speed of deployment and service resiliency. Coordinate new software releases among multiple engineering disciplines. In an engineering capacity, wrote new automation to support the development and deployment of new software.In an engineering capacity, write new automation to support the development and deployment of new software.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Coordinated the efforts of multiple engineering teams to deliver software components comprising the OnLive gaming service to the system integration and deployment teams. Working with the engineering managers, directors, product managers and marketing, proposed preliminary schedules and roadmaps for regular release cycles. Created release dashboards so that the team could release progress of the current release.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Leading the build & release team, prioritized and tracked major build infrastructure projects to support rapid developer and product growth. Along with a principal engineer, helped to shape the requirements and implement the a new build infrastructure to support the growing code base used to support both foundation technologies and new products.As a staff engineer, designed and implemented the public installer repositories to enable automatic download and installation for both ESX and desktop product lines, collaborating with security engineers and QA to ensure a successful deployment.As a Development Lead, championed the principles of continuous integration and testing by designing and implementing tools that allow developers to perform pre-submit functional testing of features under development for VMware's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure product, eventually folding it into the main continuous integration framework.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Led a team of three release engineers, providing training and guidance into build & release best practices. Instituted cross-training among products to ensure consistent coverage and support. Reduced build times by over 100% and instituted new development process to engineers to enable a deeper understanding of leveraging open source software into Nokia products.

Developed installers for the product, as well as extensions to the revision control system to automatically track code changes and commit changes into multiple development branches based on a configurable rules system.

Managed the build & release team, responsible for supporting engineering for both mozilla.org and Netscape branded web browsers across multiple platforms.