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San Jose, Ca, Us

Leading Canvas tooling, a new initiative to bring XD, Photoshop, and Illustrator features to the web, based on a new web platform for the Adobe Creative Cloud.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Engineering leader for the 4M MAU XD product. Led a 225 person org spanning the US, Europe, and Asia. Substantially raised quality, product NPS, and product availability. Consistently achieved the highest employee engagement scores of the larger org. Change agent for service infrastructure teams.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led the cloud transformation of the Adobe XD product: cloud documents and coediting (multiple simultaneous editors, similar to Google Docs). Consistently achieved the highest employee engagement scores of the larger org.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Returned to Adobe after a six year break and led a 150 person development platform team across the US, India, and Romania.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Joined Candor based on Kim Scott's best selling book Radical Candor, the strength of the founding team, and the principles underlying the Candor philosophy. Designed and implemented the Scala, and Node.js microservice infrastructure for all products on top of AWS and the Google Cloud Platform.

Real-time 3D-CAD jobsite management startup for the construction and data center operations industry. Think Facebook meets Google Maps for billions of assets across large construction ($1B+ Hospital Construction) or large data center owner-operators (Apple, Google).Designed and implemented an asset graph database implementation based on building taxonomy with full asset history. Built microservice APIs, on top of DynamoDB, HazelCast, and a distributed, Multi Version Concurrency Control, B+tree for indexing.Technologies Used: Android, JavaScript, React, Node.js, Scala, Hazelcast, Linux, AWS DynamoDB, AWS EC2, Google Cloud Platform, AutoDesk Revit Plugin Framework, C#

Online service for molecular biologists that automated, optimized, and visualized primer design for knock-in and knockout genetic experiments. Included a novel set of dynamic programming algorithms for minimizing unwanted secondary primary binding by quickly analyzing and pruning trillions of possible experimental designs across melting temperature ranges, salinity ranges, and a database of possible enzymes.Built original prototype and front-end in ActionScript before porting to Scala microservices on top of AWS DynamoDB, S3, EC2, and Elastic Beanstalk.Technologies Used: ActionScript-3, JavaScript, Java, Scala, AWS DynamoDB, Linux

San Jose, Ca, Us

Responsible for developing Adobe's early distributed software for identity, storage, metadata, hosting, and other services. Responsible for data center buildout, custom hardware design, hardware procurement, logistics, and operations across the US, UK, Germany, and Romania.Designed, coded, and operated various SaaS microservices, including: Adobe's petabyte scale storage clone of the Google File System, global account management system, scalable metadata retrieval, scalable indexing service, image transcoding service, email communication system, image transcoding, automated law enforcement subpoena request system, and many other microservices.Reduced hardware hosting costs by 80%. Reduced server provisioning time from 6 months to five days or less. Quadrupled rack server density with custom server hardware designs. Increased circuit power utilization from an average of 10% to 80%. Reduced storage hosting costs by 90% while achieving triple redundancy.Achieved 100% uptime in 2011 with distributed file system service while handling 40 millions requests per day across multiple petabytes of data (10,000 hard disks). Globally expanded Adobe’s identity system (100M+ accounts) from one data center to three data centers without downtime.Technologies Used: C++, FastCGI, GCC, Lighttpd, Java, Linux

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led the development of an offline, ad-hoc and structured, email-based workflow system. Developed a Google File System clone for storing massive amounts of data as part of the project.Our internal startup project was a rare graduate of the Entrepreneur in Residence program and was merged into the Adobe Acrobat organization. The cost-saving benefits of our storage technology paved the way for new, service-based, consumer products across the company.Technologies Used: C++, FastCGI, GCC, Lighttpd, Visual Studio, Win32 API, HTML, CSS

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led the Adobe Text Engine team, developers of the common text editing and layout library for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and 15 other products. Recorded one of the highest grossing domestic and international Photoshop releases, largely due to the strengths of the new text features.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Individual contributor on multiple domestic and international versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat PDF Library.“Smokejumper” for Illustrator 9, Illustrator 10, and Photoshop 5.5. Fixed hundreds of bugs towards the end of projects to secure ship date, preventing a loss of over $1M per day.Improved app performance of Illustrator 10: radically reduced file load and object graph rendering times through use of Intel VTune and performance optimizations.Technical lead for Adobe Illustrator 6 - Adobe’s first $100M revenue application.Repaired damage from Illustrator 5.5 launch by fixing text layout compatibility with Illustrator 5 while adding additional typography features.Developed Adobe’s first Chinese, Japanese, and Korean typography features in Illustrator 3.2J, a breakthrough product in Japan and Adobe’s most successful international application of the 1990s.

Cupertino, California, Us

Individual contributor on Apple's KanjiTalk operating system. Co-developed Apple's first Chinese, Japanese, and Korean outline font solution (CJK TrueType).Debugged and fixed problems with Font Manager and QuickDraw 68K font rendering, Apple's first Asian TrueType fonts, and TrueType font rendering library.Wrote new line layout algorithms in C for International text team.Added new, persistent, bitmap font cache that made Japanese MacOS 6.x up to an order of magnitude faster than the domestic System 7 OS.Created in memory font cache for Shift JIS encoded fonts (mixed single/double byte encoding). Previous font manager caches were assumed to be 256 characters or less.

Individual contributor at Macintosh database publishing startup.Platforms: MacintoshLanguages: 68K Assembly, C