Damon Silver Email & Phone Number

Cupertino, California, Us

Sunnyvale, California, Us

* Early core engineering hire at rapid-growth security startup, which means I've worn many hats and have worked on most parts of the product at one point or another. These days I manage the build and release pipeline, help make sure floundering projects get out the door, all while continuing to tackle whatever needs doing.* Designed and built auditable events infrastructure used to record significant occurrences within the product and on clients' systems* Designed and built traffic flow monitoring infrastructure used to capture anomalous data flows in order to add security rules to allow or prevent them as needed

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Manage content of all kinds for Allakhazam.com, interact with subscribers, troubleshoot, etc.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

* Provide critical-path features for ad and content management portal* Port and extend API's to support business-critical UI revisions and ad trafficking* Monitor and improve ad trafficker performance* Provide mentorship to junior engineers on best practices, code reviews, design choices* Coordinate between geo-separated teams in San Francisco and Palo Alto to drive projects to fruitful, robust completion* Evaluate and incorporate new technologies to facilitate engineering objectives

• Built features, fixed bugs, deployed code, and generally touched all parts of the e-commerce site built on Ruby on Rails/Heroku/MongoDB/AWS stack.• Worked on SEO, primarily with Google Webmaster Tools and SEOMoz but others as well. Converted JavaScript catalog browser to HTML version to improve crawlability. Added high-value keywords, cleaned up problems, worked on increasing inbound links, etc.• Monitored real-time performance, fought fires, and tuned code to dramatically reduce response time.

• Created and enhanced modular internal tools as needed to support User Acquisition team requirements for ad management on Facebook, our primary platform. Required frequent revision due to the volatile nature of Facebook REST API and Graph API. Examples:o Ad Creative CMS: allows UA team members to A/B test various combinations of title/body/image/targeting segment, creating many thousands of ads simultaneouslyo Automated bid adjuster: Frequently updates ad bids to ensure competitive pricing and more bang for our buck• Designed and implemented competitive scraping framework to support analytics requirements, allowing analysts to define ad hoc market research queries to be executed against Facebook • Championed ongoing review of production processes for scalability and capacity planning• Spearheaded move to enterprise-scale build/test/deployment processes via Jenkins

• Built multiple data warehouse-backed web applications with full-featured reporting capabilities spanning hundreds of millions of rows of data.• Took aging code base and converted it to modern build system (maven) and deployment system (WAR + Hudson). Build dependencies are now explicitly managed and up-to-date, creating an integrated system-wide code base instead of multiple siloed projects.• Implemented load property architecture which created separation of concerns between code deployment and data deployment.

Overview: Handled back-end and middle-tier for feature enhancements, bugs, and infrastructure improvements of ad-driven SMS messaging services.• Reengineered advertising server and advertising console web application, helping to grow 4INFO’s core business by > 500% by serving more ads during 2008.• Provided technical expertise, advice, and guidance to colleagues in various areas including principles of robust software design, unit testing, database design, cost-benefit analysis, etc.• Tackled solo and team tasks large and small, e.g., rapid response: met mobile carrier demands that required system-wide code changes with 24-hour turnaround time; long-term: completed end-to-end projects such as rebuilding mobile text alerts service that included design, planning, implementation, configuration, testing, and deployment over a period of months.

Princeton, Nj, Us

Overview: Put scientific and medical journals on the web. Provided various web-based services (search, alerts, electronic letters to the editor, etc.).• Took simple single-form web service and expanded it into a multi-functional suite of services, including writing Java code base from scratch (> 50,000 lines of code), providing rapid proof-of-concept prototypes for new services prior to deployment, and redesigning database to increase amounts and types of data tracked and to provide greater flexibility and robustness.• Created tool to generate detailed and aggregate user activity reports in XML Schema.• Implemented extensible CAPTCHA system to block automated email spam.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Overview: Rapid software development at start-up to power data aggregation engine and various applications built using the engine.• Shepherded and implemented the first online Java-based product that allowed corporations to self-publish job listings to a job search site.• Took two websites from mock-up to fully functional launch in short eight-week timeframes. Tasks included: building two web real estate search engines, Apartments Plus On-line (search apartment listings) and Home Canopy (search real estate listings); managing one JavaScript UI programmer; designing and coding production process, all content standards, database, Perl back-end.• Received MVP Award, 2nd Quarter 1997 for exceeding project goals and ongoing contribution to the company.