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Austin, Tx, Us

Irvine, California, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

Engineering owner of two business verticals (out of four): Network(NDR) and SaaS Applications.These were core parts of Vectra’s product offering: a security platform driven by machine learningmodels analyzing network traffic and SaaS events and surfacing anomalies.Led Vectra’s transformation from a hardware appliance/on premise solution to a multi-tenantcloud SaaS platform. This shift allowed for an entirely new sales motion, paved a path forengineering to build new product offerings that provide additional customer coverage/protection,and enabled the business to continue to grow and scale efficiently.Senior engineering leader during high growth phases as Vectra raised a Series E and F round,doubled the size of the engineering team, and increased ARR by more than 5X.

San Jose, Ca, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Led architecture, planning, and development of APIs, web sites, and mobile apps for thousands of independent pharmacist receiving more than one hundred thousand drug refills monthly.Overhauled existing Drupal API solution and replaced it with a series of HIPAA compliant RESTful microservices running on Google Cloud as Kubernetes pods.Worked directly with the CTO to set code quality and security standards as well as build an engineering culture of respect, trust, and the pursuit of engineering excellence as the engineering team tripled in size and the VC backed company grew from series A to series B.Mentored direct reports across platform and mobile teams providing technical, leadership, and career advice.

Austin, Texas, Us

Gathered requirements from our banking partner and finance team to architect and build a banking core that supported over $12 million in FDIC insured deposits and processed over $3.5 million in customer payments.1 of 2 engineers responsible for building the entire engineering organization and engineering stack from the ground up to be secure (handling debit card numbers, bank accounts, and SSNs), compliant (SOC 1 Type 1 & 2), and scalable.Critical contributor taking VC backed, seed level company with zero customers to 15,000 active paying users and over 42,000 authenticated users.Designed the SOA application stack (aws, python/flask, postgres, and redis) as well as procedures for handling app secrets, building and deploying code (terraform, packer, gitlab), automated backups of code and data, logging for the applications and web servers (Elasticsearch), local development (docker), hosting an internal Git repo (gitlab), and planning and grooming sprints.

Austin, Tx, Us

Built, designed, and deployed features for the company’s flagship property, retailmenot.com, receiving 100 million+ visits and generating 100+ million dollars in revenue yearly.Team lead of the email platform team tasked with sending millions of custom emails daily containing RetailMeNot promotions. Successfully migrated RetailMeNot’s email list of over ten million emails between email service providers (ESPs) with no interruption to service. Rewrote the technique for sending emails from a synchronous SOAP pattern to an asynchronous pattern using queues (rabbitmq).Co-led the RetailMeNot intern program to mentor young engineers during the summer and help them learn software engineering concepts, ship code to production, and work on valuable business projects.Member of the Production Support on Duty (PSOD) rotation for over two years. PSOD was a group of seasoned engineers with wide knowledge of RetailMeNot systems and services that provided the first line of support for any issues with RetailMeNot properties in production 24/7 in addition to their normal duties.Member of the engineering interview team that helped grow the company from 40 to 100+ engineers and take the company from a late stage startup through IPO.

Seoul, Kr

Maintained and improved the purchasing software used to buy all raw materials and spare parts, handle all returns and repairs, and forecast material usage for the largest semiconductor plant in North America.Assisted in the creation of a financial reporting system that tracked cost and spend data for the different engineering groups.

Albany, Ny, Us

Master Of Science In Engineering, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Biomedical Engineering