Edmond Kotowski Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

• Engineering manager for the Twitch Subscriptions, Gifts, and Emotes team• Led a large migration effort to migrate Twitch Subscriptions and Emote code from a Ruby on Rails monolith to Golang microservices• Drove adoption of Machine Learning across a number of applications in Commerce, ultimately leading to the creation of a stand alone team

San Francisco, California, Us

• Lead Engineer on the Twitch Subscriptions and Bits team• Designed and shipped Subscription Gifting, Tiered Subscriptions, Subscriptions for Affiliates, and Bits on Twitch• Designed, created, and owned Twitch services for Emotes, Subscriptions, and Video Access using Golang in AWS• Designed and shipped a service that interacted with Amazon internal services to link Twitch accounts with Amazon Prime accounts• Scaled Subscription services to handle over 1 million transactions per second

Houston, Texas, Us

• Developer on the Database as a Service (DBaaS) team under HP Helion/Cloud division.• Core reviewer and contributor on the OpenStack Trove project.• DBaaS and Trove technology stack: Python, WSGI, Django, MySQL, and RabbitMQ.• Designed and developed the DBaaS hot pools feature that maintains a pool of running compute nodes to speed up database instance creation in the cloud.• Own feature to add Redis and MongoDB data store support into OpenStack Trove.• Manage and maintain DBaaS on HP’s public cloud.• Trove commits: https://github.com/openstack/trove/commits?author=edmondkotowski

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Developed and shipped Microsoft's internal quality and compliance tool Quality Essentials on the Engineering Excellence team.• Owned the client UI using: C#, WPF, and XAML with an MVVM design.• Ran usability studies with the User Experience team and incorporated customer feedback into the UI.• Created a Telemetry service for the compliance team using the Azure cloud platform to record statistics and performance data of our services• Developed web methods on the IIS web tier, stored procedures on the SQL server backend, and integrated them into the client.• Redesigned the application tier from a SOAP to RESTful web service using ASP.net Web API.• Used Team Foundation Server for versioning and work item tracking.• Designed and developed features using TDD and agile methodology.

Bethesda, Md, Us

• Programmed on NVIDIA GPUs with C/C++, Java, OpenCL and CUDA, to drastically increase the speed of image processing algorithms using the highly parallel nature of GPUs and multi-core CPUs.• Created a cross platform (Windows / SUSE Linux) 3D visualization application using Visual Studio, Eclipse, QT, OpenGL, and VTK in C++ to visualize, filter, and process LIDAR Point Cloud data and Digital Elevation Models.• Developed custom C/C++ plugins for MATLAB and IDL using CUDA to improve performance of primitive functionality.• Created a Computer Based training outline tool in Flash CS3 using ActionScript 3.0.• Developed applications on the Cell Processor to provide comparative benchmarking against Scalar Processors.• Developed a tool using Python/VTK that could track deviations and normalcy in a neighborhood using sensor data.• The Python/VTK tool would display 3D visualizations in real time in which the user could view and interpret.

Reston, Va, Us

M.S., Computer Science

B.S., Computer Science