Enabling teams of any size and expertise to build and leverage real time data infrastructure in minutes not months.

Our mission at I4G is to increase the earning power of Africans by training 1,000,000 tech talents in Africa and connecting them to 5,000 jobs. We are doing this in three core ways: Micro-scholarships, Technical Training, and Talent Placement. Please donate: https://ingressive.org/i4g-donations/

First platform engineering PM hire. Tasked with developing a strategy and execution to help Twitter engineers 5X their innovation velocity. Owned migrations, observability, language libraries, and anything else to help the company ship high quality features faster.

Stanford community college lecturer on designing safe spaces for black and brown folks.

Floodgate Academy is an apprenticeship program designed to solve the lack of diversity in the technology industry by creating a pipeline of technically proficient developer operations engineers from underrepresented communities.Through challenging curriculum based on real world scenarios and partnering with forward thinking technical organizations, Floodgate will provide students with an unmatched experience that builds a proper foundation for a long lasting career in tech.

Creating better ways for developers to build, deploy, manage, and scale their applications.

Expert in Residence for Product Management.

Digging into the data generated by our apps to find areas where we can further engage with our users and monetize. Revamped our curation process from an editorial process to a function of engagement. Owned the transactional messaging system that powered email and push notifications(system and in app).

Preach the gospel of the Zendesk Developer Platform to the masses and the keeper of all things API. Check it out: http://developer.zendesk.com

(Acquired by GiftConnect) Building a Music as a Service platform that incentivizes users to buy more virtual goods and share their experiences in apps and games.

Developed scalable worldwide developer outreach programs in North America, Europe, and Asia to increase adoption of our mobile cross platform SDK.Engaged third party vendors in advertising, analytics, engine, infrastructure, payments, and social/discovery verticals to increase capabilities of our SDK and unlocked new revenue streams.

Increased adoption and positive perception of development platform amongst academic audience; Historically Black Colleges and Universities) specializing in Silverlight, ASP.NET, Virtualization, WPF, and Gaming w/ XNAWorked with educational entities to develop custom solutions showcasing our development and infrastructure platformDelivered guest lectures at top colleges(MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Vanderbilt) on web development with Silverlight and ASP.NETProvided guidance to numerous community and educational organizations on how to properly utilize technology to increase technical skillsets and job prospects

Incident Engineering (Windows Live)Provided 24x7 operations support to the largest installation of Windows/SQL Server in the world for Hotmail/Windows Live.Developed automation framework in C# and automation scripts in Perl, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript to handle responses to incidents in data centerDeveloped asset management tool in C# to track changes in storage hardware. Analyzed trends in outages due to hardware failures.Technical Lead on MOM integration within new storage infrastructure. Created custom management packs, oversaw deployment of agents, and framework for automated incident response handling

Develop test scripts to qualify components of next generation Integrated Services RoutersCreated an automated testing tool to run/create testing scripts for qualification in C++ and TCLCreated Cisco Student Ambassador Program to increase visibility of Cisco Systems on college campusesCompleted IOS Programming, IOS Configuration, IOS Debugging, CCNA/CCDA/CCNP/CCDP, Defensive Coding in C/C++ Coursework

Served as developer support for PhD projects in the department of Computer Science. Worked primarily with the Systems Research Group.

Worked with third party vendors to create custom auditing application used in various factories to check for hardware and security complianceUtilized Microsoft Analysis Services(MOM 2005, SMS 2003) to monitor and maintain chip manufacturing systems in factoriesCreated virtual environment using Virtual Server 2005 to model various production scenarios. Efficiently consolidated server usage. Sped up testing and modeling capabilities.Product owner for MOM 2000/2005, Virtual Server 2005, and Pagemate

Worked on various security and infrastructure related projects. Released a project called HoneyNode which was a honeypot for high-performance computing clusters. Created security coursework(CS491 - Intro to Security, CS492 - Designing Secure Systems) for the Department of Computer Science under the supervision of Dr. Roy Campbell. Served on the incident response team for the clusters.

Worked on the Human Genome Project as an application developer. Provided custom applications around visualization for genomic data to researchers and professors. Responsible for creating ETL jobs for large datasets, maintaining database infrastructure, and performance.