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Seattle, WA, US

Managing the ML Compiler team for the AWS Inferentia and Trainium systems.We're building the world’s most cost-effective and easy to use deep-learning cloud infrastructure. Always looking to hire skilled compiler engineers to help define the future of machine learning.

Mountain View, CA, US

Broad Engineering Productivity team charter to define and deliver tools and processes for the Google Cloud infrastructure software layers (OS, virtual machine, fleet management) to meet business-critical release cadence, release velocity, and feature correctness goals.

Austin, Texas, US

• Led the Developer Tools & Cloud Services team with the goal of adding Solaris as a new platform in the Oracle Cloud specifically focused on providing tools and services for developers.
• Integrated Solaris OS and developer software (e.g., Chef, Puppet, SonarQube, analysis tools, etc.) into Oracle’s Developer Cloud Service resulting in a framework for Solaris users to adopt an agile dev/test and CI/CD.
• Created an OpenStack-based cloud service that allows development teams to self-serve various hardware/OS configurations in minutes, which improved existing server utilization and reduced server purchases by 30%.

Austin, Texas, US

Led geographically dispersed teams comprised of development, test, product management, technical writers, and support engineers responsible for the Oracle Developer Studio product. Partnered with cross-functional stakeholders within engineering, product management, and sales teams to drive the product strategy / roadmap and facilitate key technical.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Business unit responsibility for the Sun Developer Tools products, which included direction setting, development, support services, product marketing, recruiting, mentoring, outreach, and contract negotiations.
• Managed $25M budget and geographically dispersed teams to deliver multiple application developer suite products, which generated $100M/year in license and support revenue and grew Sun’s application ecosystem.
• Collaborated with hardware, OS, and partner organizations to ensure features complemented new system capabilities. Garnered numerous benchmark world records.
• Led a cross-company team that increased product user base 100% in 12 months by offering new services and sponsoring a coding competition that required product usage to generate the correct answer.
• Introduced a new product release methodology that reduced release cycle time from 18 months to 6 months.
• Negotiated co-bundling agreements with partners, which expanded product feature set and salability, and grew partner’s customer base.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Managed various projects spanning a range of technologies with increasing levels of responsibility. Some of these roles included:
• Conceived, got approval for, and led an internal start-up team focused on the rapidly growing Java tools market, which resulted in a new product - Java Studio Creator – being developed and released.
• Established an offshore development team in St. Petersburg, Russia, which lowered costs by 80% and broadened the team’s talent pool.
• Led teams developing parts of an Object Request Broker product, including a repository for discovery of objects & services (precursor to today's Web Services) and interface translators for C, C++, and Java.
• Defined a software release-to-manufacturing process. Recruited and trained a highly productive team that managed 20+ software product releases in one year, all on time and with no re-work.
• Developed SunOS/HW simulator toolkits that enabled Sun’s partners to use SPARC chips in new markets.

Holmdel, New Jersey, US

Engineer and manager of digital switching systems built using UNX software.

Executive Education, Accelerate Executive Insight

Executive Education, Accelerate Executive Insight

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Mathematics And Computer Science