In my current role, as co-founder, I spearhead the architecture and development of our flagship SaaS product. As CTO, I recruit, train, and guide our global team of engineers and architects to deliver cutting-edge mobile and web solutions. Key accomplishments include:• Building the initial product pivotal to achieving a staggering 400% quarter-over-quarter revenue growth, showcasing market prowess and scalability.• Ensuring that our technology leverages the cloud, micro-services, DevOps, and agile methodologies allowing us to support our explosive growth.• Collaborating with product, sales, and key customers to ensure that we're building to our ICP.• Playing pivotal role in securing two rounds of venture capital funding, contributing to total investment exceeding $4.5M.• Managing several aspects of business, including HR, Compliance, Finance.

In my past role, I executed innovative testing functionalities utilizing AWS services, while enabling retail clients to expedite mobile application updates and significantly reduce time-to-market. I engaged with clients to pinpoint cloud-based solutions and infrastructure enhancements tailored to needs.• Achieved AWS/Slalom Cloudiator Belt, attaining all five foundational AWS certifications plus one specialized certification.• Directed and utilized team of six consultants, generating annual revenue exceeding $2M.• Acted as primary technical lead in securing over $2M worth of customer engagements.

I facilitated integration and eventual phasing out of one of Cvent's acquired entities. I designed and maintained solutions across AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, and Rackspace, incorporating technologies, such as microservices, Kubernetes, ECS, and AWS Lambda, among others.• Pioneered migration project, transitioning Cvent-acquired product from Rackspace to Google Cloud, resulting in annual savings of approximately $500K (~50% cost reduction).• Oversee team of nine site reliability engineers managing five products, collectively contributing over $100M in revenue.• Negotiated with multiple vendors amidst challenges posed by COVID-19, achieving significant 40% reduction in costs.• Implemented architectural principles and best practices aimed at minimizing waste and optimizing cost efficiency.• Led team of seven architects and engineers, resulting in noteworthy 50% reduction in cloud expenditure.

I implemented cost-saving measures in AWS environment through waste identification, process optimization, and establishment of utilization standards, resulting in reduced operational expenses. I also directed engineering team to successfully migrate initial customers from company's data center to AWS, achieving critical milestone. I addressed technical, operational, and personnel challenges during Jive's transition to Aurea, averting potential disruptions to stability. Furthermore, I functioned as subject matter expert for AWS, aligning service selection with business objectives encompassing availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, and security.• Designed architecture, encompassing single-tenant monolithic application orchestrated in Kubernetes, microservices also orchestrated in Kubernetes, ELK stack, recommendation engine, RDS, Lambda, and other components.• Led global team of engineers supporting $500M ARR company, achieving 30% reduction in cloud costs, while enhancing availability and uptime to 99.95%.• Retained engineering teams during transition from Jive to Aurea for seamless transfer of engineering and support functions.

I conducted information modeling training sessions for teams in USA and Israel. I collaborated with product management leaders to establish Universal Person Identity information model, serving as primary communication framework between business and engineering teams for discussing product features and capabilities. Furthermore, I orchestrated design sessions to craft scalable, secure, and adaptable multi-tenant architecture aligned with Jive's present and future business objectives. I developed patterns, best practices, and code examples facilitating Jive's migration from monolithic platform in hosted environment to microservices on AWS. I authored and submitted two patents.• Led as principal architect and product owner for key aspects of Jive's next-generation architecture, conceptualizing solutions, fostering consensus, and providing guidance to multiple engineering and product teams, resulting in filing of two patents with opportunity to present new architecture at JiveWorld17.• Garnered team support through various engagement techniques, such as lunch-and-learns, informal meetings, one-on-one sessions, and comprehensive documentation.• Optimized Jive's AWS expenditure, achieving monthly savings ranging between $100K to $200K as AWS Subject Matter Expert (SME).• Consolidated over 2K Postgres databases into cluster of 7 RDS instances, resulting in 80% reduction in costs.• Migrated over 2PB of data and 10K VMs from Jive's legacy data center to AWS within a month's timeframe.

I offered comprehensive technical recommendations, proposals, Proof of Concepts (POCs), and guidance to both existing and prospective AWS clients. I managed technically demanding role characterized by multitude of use cases, extensive customer engagements, and fast-paced evolution of AWS services.• Addressed wide array of use cases, encompassing backup solutions, highly available and fault-tolerant systems, disaster recovery strategies, process automation frameworks, scientific compute clusters, big data solutions, and scalable, resilient databases.

I employed Responsive design principles with BootCamp for web user interface, ensuring optimal viewing and interaction across various devices and screen sizes. I implemented solution using Java, Spring Framework, Hibernate, and Postgres database with deployment on Amazon Web Services (AWS).• Designed and developed web applications utilizing mobile devices (Android and iOS) to streamline crowd-sourced pickup and delivery of household or local goods.

• Hands-on architect specializing in rules engines, Java, and data modeling• As a Principal Architect, led a team of developers and architects and developers to create the architecture, high-level, and detailed design of a major new application that is deployed and used globally• Identified a major gap in the development lifecycle, suggested the solution to the CTO, and then directed a team of 20+ onshore and offshore developers, architects, project managers, and business analysts• Collaborated with the business to create the capabilities roadmap used as a framework while building our global Freight Forwarding solution• Identifies potential capabilities of the product that can provide UTi strategic and tactical advantages. Works with business leaders to prioritize these capabilities in the backlog and then ensures that the development team correctly and fully implements the capabilities to realize the business benefits• Primary interface to the business for the development team so that the team has a consistent goals and objectives• Identify opportunities to decompose complicated requirements or long-term capabilities into smaller features that can be delivered incrementally allowing features to be iteratively developed resulting in a faster time to market for our product and increased end-user satisfaction and control. • Selected, piloted, and negotiated with multiple vendors to acquire process and data modeling tools• Created the service, data, and message model that is the back-bone of the global forwarding application• Collaborate with business stakeholders, IT Directors, and the CTO to insure that the architecture and technical design fully satisfy business requirements, future architectural direction, and IT Policies while adhering to budgetary and time constraintsAdditional ExperienceIndependent Contractor, State of Oregon Employment DivisionExpert Architect, NikePrincipal Enterprise Architect, Con-way Enterprise Service

* Led the business in several JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions to design key features of an application that streamlined OED business processes.* Created the conceptual, logical, and physical data models for an enterprise metadata repository to support ongoing and future business initiatives in the employment division.* Created the data and integration strategy in support of the composite application that combined data from a mainframe, Oracle database, and an enterprise document management system.* Collaborated with members from the business to optimize the to-be business architecture to take advantage of the capabilities enabled by workflow, modern integration, and business rule technologies.* Designed and prototyped the next generation of the user interface to be used within the agency.

* Prepared strategic IT roadmaps that were used to help the IT leadership and business predict and understand the impact of changing priorities and budgets on key business objectives.* Evangelized process improvements and technologies that guided the enterprise towards the technology roadmap.* Led the effort to establish a data and information directed architecture within Nike Retail.* Selected and evangelized data and integration tools including Informatica and ERWIN.* Worked with business systems analysts and engineers to establish standard and efficient analysis and development practices.

* Initial member of the startup team for several new business opportunities at Con-way. Worked with the business to define, refine, and implement business processes, IT and non IT solutions as necessary for new business ventures. * Evaluated and proposed technologies that helped the business meet current and future strategic goals* Prepared strategic technology roadmaps and evangelized emerging technologies and guided the enterprise towards the technology roadmap* Selected, piloted, and created common infrastructure components for several software tools including: Informatica, Oracle (database, reports, forms, and Discoverer), SeeBeyond e*Gate, and Cognos.* Created all aspects (infrastructure, data, integration, security, application) of the architecture for one of Con-way’s business units. This required a high level of communication with internal and external stakeholders including senior executives at the customer. Initially, led the team that was responsible for implementing and supporting the architecture.* Developed and supported technologies as required by IT teams including Oracle Encryption, Java development, Oracle PL/SQL development, C & C++ development, and UNIX scripting