Team leader and cloud architect passionate about building publicly facing, highly scalable and resilient applications THAT WORK. What I Do: ☒ Build, manage, and motivate a high-caliber, collaborative development organization.☒ Define, manage, and own effective development processes to consistently deliver high-quality, scalable software products on schedule.☒ Establish engineering and operational best practices for the organization leveraging existing best of breed approaches and my own past experience.☒ Make well-balanced decisions regarding build/license/buy, use of open source, new technology trends, integration with internal/external tech, and strategy.☒ Serve as player/coach with a hands-on approach to building scalable applications. What I've Done: ✓ 20+ years hands-on software engineering experience with 15+ years managing mid to large sized, dynamic engineering teams delivering commercial successes.✓ Experience building products that amaze consumers around the world. ✓ Industry recognized expert in the field of databases✓ Certified Amazon AWS Developer✓ Certified Google Marketer ✓ Certified Terraform Developer ✓ Experience managing remote teams in all parts of the world.✓ Proven leadership in inspiring, recruiting, and retaining all levels of technical talent.✓ Success working in a diverse technology environment with a variety of tech stacks. ✓ Ability to fit in well within an informal start-up environment and a hands-on approach.In my own free time, I use git to manage code in Bitbucket, building with CircleCI, generating useful serverless applications running in public cloud. My passion is scalability and my current arsenal of tools include message queues, caches, and databases. Open Source enthusiast.