David Fannin

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University Lecturer @ Northeastern University
Issaquah, WA, US
About David Fannin

Helping to training the next generation of technical leaders as a Professor in the College of Engineering at Northeastern University. Senior Software Engineering Leader (VP/Sr. Director) for Infrastructure, DevOps and SaaS applications. Proven global leadership for major transformations. Strong technical leader who creates high-performance teams and delivers software projects on-time and under-budget. Successful at driving innovative and creative products that exceed market objectives. Domain areas include SDN, DevOps, SaaS applications, and Big Data. Career highlights: Professor, Northeastern University (Seattle Branch) , Sr. SDM, AWS, Sr. Director Juniper Networks , VP RocketFuel, Sr. Director Yahoo. MS in Computer Science, and BS in Mechanical Engineering.

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Northeastern University

Northeastern University

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University Lecturer
Issaquah, WA, US
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David Fannin Work Experience Details
  • Northeastern University
    University Lecturer
    Northeastern University
    Issaquah, Wa, Us
  • Northeastern University
    University Lecturer
    Northeastern University Sep 2023 - Present
    Boston, Ma, Us
    Lecturer at the College of Engineering at Northeastern University in the Department of Multidisciplinary Graduate Engineering Program. Topics include Cloud Technologies and Agile Software Development.
  • Amazon Web Services (Aws)
    Senior Software Development Manager
    Amazon Web Services (Aws) Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    Software Development leader for Automated Smart SDN controller for the AWS border network. Responsible for architecture, design, development and deployment of innovative AI-based platform for performing intelligent traffic engineering for the global AWS border network.
  • Juniper Networks
    Sr Director, Contrail Sdn Engineering
    Juniper Networks Oct 2018 - Jul 2020
    Sunnyvale, Ca, Us
    Senior Engineering Leader for the Juniper Contrail Software Defined Network product line, including the Enterprise Multi cloud, Networking, and Fabric Management. Management of the Contrail open-source initiatives, including Tungsten Fabric. Responsible for the software development lifecycle from Architecture through Released Product , and the management of a global software engineering team with 3 Directors and approx. 120 members.Major accomplishments: Transformed software delivery process from every 6 months to consistent monthly releases, Created multiple feature trains (Long Term Support train vs. Monthly New Features), Order of magnitude improvement in software quality (over 5000 bugs fixes in one year), Creation of effective software architecture council, Delivered major new network fabric management platform (Contrail Fabric Management).
  • Rocket Fuel Inc.
    Vp Software Engineering And Quality Assurance
    Rocket Fuel Inc. Oct 2016 - May 2018
    Redwood City, Ca, Us
    Responsible for the DevOps and QE engineering teams, in charge of the RocketFuel Software-as-a-Service Ad Tech platforms, managing a global platform processing over 250B transactions per day, and over 200 PB of data. Teams (60+ people) include Site Reliability Engineering, Network Operation Center, Network Engineering, DevOps, Database, Big Data (Hadoop), and Data Center Management. Responsible for managing all production CapEx, and responsible for service uptime and availability. Also responsible for the Software Build/Release teams, and Quality Engineering organizations, focused on building our Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CICD) process and platform.Major Accomplishments: Reduction in op and cap ex savings (data center, networking, NOC) of over $10M in one year, transformed QA from 5% automated testing to 50% automated testing, and revitalized CI process with engineering., reduction in critical service incidents from 3 per week less than one per month, led major technology refresh efforts for network architecture, data center rationalization, and server upgrades.
  • Tivo
    Sr. Director, Software Engineering
    Tivo Oct 2014 - Mar 2016
    San Jose, California, Us
    Lead a team of 3 Directors and 135 software engineers responsible for the architecture and software development of the TiVo service, a large-scale, highly-available web services platform providing streaming media, metadata, search, content ingestion and provisioning/management services for the TiVo set top box. Major Accomplishments : Grew the team over 50% (80 to 130+) in one year, design and delivery of next generation cloud service (using Docker, OpenStack and Kafka), Streamlining of the software delivery life cycle, Delivery of Disaster Recovery Solution, Delivery of new provisioning system.
  • Netapp
    Sr. Director, Hadoop Incubator Team
    Netapp Jul 2012 - Jun 2014
    San Jose, California, Us
    Creation and development of NetApp's reference design for Hadoop Big Data Platform. Responsible for software development team that created Engineered Clusters, a file system and storage management layer that enabled new storage features for Hadoop. Managed open-source development contributions into the Apache Hadoop and Linux Kernel. Also responsible for product development and management of the Hadoop storage product line. Major accomplishments: Created and launched Netapp/Cisco Flexpod select for Hadoop, built out world-class engineering team, recognized in the Hadoop developer community. Secured major partnerships with Hortonworks and Cloudera, with joint development projects on major storage initiatives.
  • Cisco
    Sr. Director, Systems And Tools
    Cisco Jun 2010 - Jul 2012
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Responsible for software development of internal automation toolsfor the Technical Engineering and Operations division, responsible for supporting network, data center, and operations of Cisco on-line services, including Webex, Connect (instant messaging), and other services. Systems include Virtualization (vmware and Openstack), Central Logging Systems (based on Hadoop), Configuration Management, Release Management, Package Management, monitoring, ITIL, and CMDB.Design and development of Hadoop-based log collection platform. Managed teams in US and China.
  • Yahoo
    Sr. Director, System And Tools
    Yahoo Jun 2006 - Jun 2010
    Sunnyvale, Ca, Us
    (120+ people) Responsible for software development of Yahoo's internal applications, including network, data center, operation and engineering systems that manage one of the world's largest Internet applications provider. Systems include: Work flow Automation, Software Package Management, Network Management, Monitoring, , Network Access Control, User Management, and Configuration Management. Managed Global team (India, US, Europe)Responsible for the full Software Development Life Cycle, including architecture, design, development, and testing. All systems were developed and deployed on a self-developed platform that provided high reliability and availability .Major accomplishments include: End/end server installation automation, IP and DNS Zone (15M records) management system, Unix configuration management , Integrated CMDB (over 10M nodes and relationships), Network ACL Management (13M records), full ITIL ticketing system(over 7k/tickets/month), Software Package Management (for over 250k+ hosts), Auto-discovery hardware and software system (250k+ hosts), Centralized subversion server (all Y! Source code), Event Correlation System, Continuous Integration platform (Hudson), Automated SNMP monitoring system (12k/measurements/sec).
  • Propel
    Ceo And President
    Propel Feb 2004 - Mar 2006
    Santa Clara, California, Us
    Startup Company (65 people, $9M revenue) providing web acceleration software and anti-Spam appliance for ISPs. Accomplishments include: successful restructuring of company, 100%sales increase, achieved positive cash flow, launch of new product lines.
  • Exodus Communications
    Executive Vice President, Network Engineering
    Exodus Communications Mar 2001 - Sep 2002
    Us
    Leader of Network Backbone Engineering (200 employees, $300M unit revenue). Major accomplishments include redesign of peering networks, development of managed web hosting service, and development of web performance-monitoring services.
  • Coreon (Kleiner-Perkins)
    President And Coo
    Coreon (Kleiner-Perkins) Aug 2000 - Mar 2001
    Barueri, São Paulo, Br
    Kleiner-Perkins Startup (200 people) providing managed services for DSLProviders. Development of platform to provide “back office” functions,including order entry, provisioning, network monitoring and management, andtesting. Raised $75M in two rounds of venture funding.
  • Southwestern Bell  Laboratories
    Ceo
    Southwestern Bell Laboratories Oct 1999 - Aug 2000
    SBC Officer-level position. Research and Development for SBC (350people) Responsible for setting technology direction for all of SBC, including IP networking, DSL, ATM, WDM, Wireline, Wireless and OSS. Major accomplishment was the launch of IP-based product initiatives, including IPPBX, Ethernet Access, PON, and IPTV.
  • Southwestern Bell Internet
    Ceo
    Southwestern Bell Internet Dec 1998 - Oct 1999
    Top 10 US ISP (1000 people, $220M Revenue). Offerings included Dial-up,ISDN, DSL and Business Access. Major accomplishments included initial rollout of DSL (became largest provider of DSL in the US), and restructuring of operations (over $90M/year in savings)
  • Pacific Bell
    Area Vice President
    Pacific Bell Mar 1993 - Dec 1998
    Chatsworth, California, Us
    Leader of systems engineering team (40 people). Responsible for architecture, technical standards, requirements, and software development for SS7 network. Major accomplishments include development of traffic data engineering system, local number portability, and 800 number portability.Leader of operations team (100 people) for SS7, ATM, and Tandem Switch networks.
  • Pacific Bell
    Principal Member Of Technical Staff
    Pacific Bell Sep 1988 - Feb 1993
    Chatsworth, California, Us
    Lead Systems Engineer on network projects, including SS7 (Signalling System 7), voice mail, automated ordering systems, and advanced intelligent network (AIN) services. Responsible for software design, testing, development and technical analysis.
  • At&T Bell Laboratories
    Member Of Technical Staff
    At&T Bell Laboratories Aug 1985 - Sep 1988
    Holmdel, New Jersey, Us
    Lead software engineer for architecture, design and development of Unix/X11 based SNMP network management systems.

David Fannin Skills

Cloud Computing Agile Methodologies Linux Perl Unix Software Development Data Center Saas High Availability Software Engineering Distributed Systems Virtualization Start Ups Testing Hadoop Python Mysql Big Data Apache Open Source Operating Systems Vmware Java Sdlc Architecture Subversion Itil Web Applications Test Automation Software As A Service Ip Php Tcp/ip Cisco Technologies Agile Configuration Management Continuous Integration Javascript Shell Scripting Software Development Life Cycle Openstack Dns Ip Networking Html5 Lamp Rest Ruby Web Services Git

David Fannin Education Details

  • California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
    California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
    Computer Science
  • California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
    California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
    Mechanical Engineering

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