Executive coach to startup engineering leaders

Strategic advisor to the world's leading server side rendering platform.

Led a team of over 100 engineers to build the future of fitness with engineering offices in SF, NYC, Missoula and Singapore.Grew the business from 4 to 28 countries and over 30,000 partners.

Led a team of approximately 60 engineers in the development and operation of a global mobile ad network. Together, we are responsible for the cost, availability and reliability of our network, which serves over 1B mobile devices monthly through over 300K integrated apps.I led key technical initiatives in the areas of: • Data warehousing using Hadoop and RedShift • Realtime data stores using Cassandra and DynamoDB

Founding engineer, built and scaled engineering team to build 9 prototype products over 12 months, culminating in the development of Medium.com. Designed new approach to delivery of web experiences via functional primitives on node.js. In parallel, as a member of the leadership team, assisted with investment and portfolio development of incubated companies including Beyond Meat (IPO 2019), Branch (sold to Facebook), and Lift.

I founded an online gaming company Ohai, where I was initially the VP of Engineering and later also CTO. With a small engineering team we built and launched two completely different massively multiplayer online games which were distributed via the Facebook platform.To create two MMOs with such a small team I created a revolutionary new way to build them using a new domain specific language. This allowed the engineering team to rapidly evolve the core game design and provided designers with a environment in which they could experiment quickly.I hired and managed the entire engineering team, including remote employees.I contributed to several rounds of fundraising, and as a member of the board was involved in the hiring of all key executives including the CEO.

I managed the EverQuest II programming team through the launch of the Rise of Kunark expansion pack. I left to form a startup with some key EverQuest II team members.

In this position I shipped:PlanetSidePlanetSide: Core CombatPlanetSide: Aftershock.I then moved to a lead role on an internal project in the spring of 2004. The project created a successful prototype for a game based on reuse of the PlanetSide client engine paired with a novel server architecture. Project development was halted due to the competitive landscape in the target market.In summer of 2004 I worked on bringing PlanetSide to the chinese market, which required a substantial reduction in memory usage by our game client. In total I was able to reduce the client's memory usage by approximately 400 MB, making it possible to play the game well with 512MB of system memory.I then transfered to the EverQuest II team where I shipped:EverQuest IIEverQuest II: Desert of FlamesEverQuest II: Kingdom of SkyEverQuest II: Echoes of Faydwer

As a senior programmer on PlanetSide I developed the overall server architecture, wrote the game object system and the database persistence layer.

As a new programmer in the computer game industry I worked on entry level tasks for PlanetSide, quickly graduating to more complex systems. In this position I developed a user interface library that is used throughout Sony Online Entertainment to this day. I also integrated a third party physics engine (Karma) and wrote general gameplay code.

This was a small startup I was involved in with some friends. I wrote brokering systems for web and email advertising using C++, ASP and SQL Server.

I worked on the Mathematica 4.0 front end for Windows including the development of a prototype OpenGL renderer for Mathematica graphics.