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San Francisco, California, US

Redwood City, California, US

Building and leading Equinix Metal’s engineering teams, covering software, network and hardware.Post-acquisition of Packet, I continue leading and managing the engineering teams responsible for the Equinix Metal cloud. Engineering teams continue to grow rapidly as we have opened many new points-of-presence and integrated with the broader Equinix.

Building and leading Packet's software, network and hardware engineering teams. As with my time at DigitalOcean, I was brought on to provide senior engineering leadership and help drive excellence and consistent delivery across all aspects of the Packet bare-metal hardware cloud. When I joined, we were about 20 engineers and managers and by the time.

New York, NY, US

Responsible for leading and managing engineering within DigitalOcean. This covered the whole product portfolio, including virtualization services, block and object storage, virtual private cloud (VPC), firewalls, load balancers and developer experiences.I joined DO to provide senior engineering leadership and help kickstart new product lines and.

Monroe, LA, US

Responsible for continued technical leadership and growth of Orchestrate team post-acquisition.

Responsible at executive level for all engineering efforts, direction and hiring. As one of the first hires, hired distributed engineering staff of 8 and created operational structure for providing a highly reliable and scalable multi-database SaaS product. Led team through multiple major revisions of backend infrastructure and ensured that our customers.

Responsible at executive level for all engineering efforts, direction and hiring. Grew the distributed engineering team from 5 to 22 over the course of 18 months. While growing team, drove 7 major releases of Riak (0.11-1.2), addition of new cloud storage product (Riak CS) and worked to diagnose/debug large-scale issues in 30-node+ production environments.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Responsible for the development and ongoing management of three independent back-end services, all implemented in a mixture of Erlang and C. All three services run in a large-scale production environment and thus have stringent requirements for robustness and scalability.

Led multiple teams in creation of new enterprise software products for digital identity/federation space. Products implemented multiple protocols: Liberty/IDFF 1.2, SAML 1.1, SAML 2.0. Also led team in creation and subsequent releases of new product which provided modular, centralized authentication. Responsible throughout product development cycle for.

Implemented in C++ a highly scalable Jabber/XMPP server capable of supporting 200,000+ concurrent users. Designed and implemented a series of C++ libraries that provided threading and socket management primitives suitable for building massively scalable messaging components. As one of the original core contributors to the Jabber Open Source project.

Designed and implemented in Borland Delphi a series of end-user products including a data-mining/reporting tool and truckload profitability forecast tool.

Participated in DARPA research project that implemented a customized Java VM in C++.