Greg Herlein

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Maker - Coder - Builder - Leader. Former US Navy Submariner. Linux, Cloud, Embedded. Amateur radio callsign KO6HAX @ BrightSign LLC
About Greg Herlein

I build software and teams that build software. A former executive said that I "build teams that don't break." My Engineers respect me technically. I'm proud that I was leading remote teams for years before the pandemic made it a necessary leadership skill.

Greg Herlein's Current Company Details
BrightSign LLC

Brightsign Llc

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Maker - Coder - Builder - Leader. Former US Navy Submariner. Linux, Cloud, Embedded. Amateur radio callsign KO6HAX
Greg Herlein Work Experience Details
  • Brightsign Llc
    Vice President Of Software Engineering
    Brightsign Llc Jun 2022 - Present
    San Jose, California, Us
    Brightsign is the market leader in digital signage players. Our software makes it easy to deploy and operate large digital signage applications using our media players - and we expose APIs at every level from the hardware up. My role includes responsibility for all cloud and client software development, QA and DevOps. We host in AWS and just completed a full shift to SSO. We are mostly migrated to Kubernetes (k8s) and use the Grafana LGTM stack.
  • Amazon Web Services (Aws)
    Principal Technical Product Manager/Principal Developer Evangelist
    Amazon Web Services (Aws) Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    Led the efforts to make it easier to use the Amazon Chime SDK to build advanced communications software. Scope includee guiding technical features, architecture, , API design, docs, and example code. Responsible for strategy to attract new customers and rapidly move them to adoption.
  • Amazon Web Services (Aws)
    Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture
    Amazon Web Services (Aws) Dec 2020 - Oct 2021
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    Led two teams of Solutions Architects covering the US West Coast. The SA role at AWS is not like a Sales Engineer: it's more of a customer advocate. We help customers learn, understand, and use AWS technology to drive their desired business outcomes.
  • Cisco
    Director, Software Engineering
    Cisco Nov 2019 - Dec 2020
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Led a team of highly experienced Architects responsible for designing systems that collect product and operational telemetry from customer facilities. This data supports our new launching "CX Cloud" web portal for single-pane-of-glass support, as well as for our world class technical support (TAC) teams. Tech stack included golang, java, docker, k8s and a variety of AWS services.
  • Cisco
    Director, Site Reliability Engineering (Sre), Customer Experience
    Cisco Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    SRE Director for a new group delivering Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) services for Service Providers. In particular, we supported Rakuten's fully virtual cloud-based deployment of a new 5G ready mobile network. Included operations support as well as advisory and consulting support for developing and improving customer OSS/BSS systems. Included the monitoring and observability systems for the Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and Cisco's Virtual Infrastructure Manager (CVIM) telco-grade OpenStack.
  • Cisco
    Director, Principal Architect/Head Of Devops, Customer Experience Platforms
    Cisco Mar 2017 - Jan 2019
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Managed the transformation of the Cisco support backend systems from legacy J2EE/Oracle/VMWare tech stack to a modern, micro-services based system using Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, and distributed data systems such as Kafka and Cassandra. Directly managed a core team of architects who delivered actual working code examples/templates. Indirect team included all the most senior architects across the group's 1000+ Engineers. Teams spread across the US (mostly San Francisco, San Jose, Raleigh), India (Bangalore, Chennai, Pune), and Europe (mostly in Vienna Austria).
  • Cisco
    Director Software Engineering
    Cisco Mar 2016 - Feb 2017
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Managed a small team developing advanced cloud technology prototype projects. This included substantial work on kolla-kubernetes, which moved the OpenStack control plane components to containers managed in a kubernetes cluster. Also proposed, designed and built a prototype "bare metal cloud" system that allowed automatic provisioning of a data center using cloud-like APIs built on Cisco ACI and UCS technology.
  • Cisco
    Director Software Engineering, Video Streaming
    Cisco Nov 2014 - Mar 2016
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Founded a new team in Cisco Video to build a streaming video solution - a so called "Netflix for Telco's" in the cloud with a full DevOps posture. Inherited a small team and built it to 30 Engineers and delivered a new product within a year. Launched the "Infinite Video" platform at IBES to great success which led to the acquisition of OneMainstream into the team and further commercial success. Heavy adoption of scrum and DevOps, deploying into a variety of on-premise and cloud environments (Rackspace and AWS).
  • Cognitive Networks
    Vice President Engineering
    Cognitive Networks Sep 2013 - Oct 2014
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Transformed Engineering team from a few seed Engineers to a ~20 Engineer team that rewrote a proof-of-concept TV content recognition system into a cost-effective, scalable and reliable product offering. Managed both development and operations. Improved uptime to better than 99.9%. Team and product improvements set the company up for acquisition in 2015. Teams based in San Francisco, Texas and Bulgaria.
  • Fogbridge Corporation
    Cto
    Fogbridge Corporation Jan 2005 - Sep 2014
    Consulted for multiple companies (including Technicolor, THX, Brightsign) as well as delivered two iOS applications to market (MultiAlien/SatDef). Additional product development efforts around educational robotics products.
  • Rackspace Hosting
    Director, Software And Product Development
    Rackspace Hosting May 2012 - Feb 2013
    San Antonio, Texas, Us
    Managed the customer-facing web portal (Cloud Console) and Cloud Monitoring teams for the public cloud part of the business. Teams based in San Francisco, Texas and Virginia.
  • Iz-On (Formerly Prn, A Technicolor Company)
    Vice President, Engineering And Technicolor Fellow
    Iz-On (Formerly Prn, A Technicolor Company) May 2011 - May 2012
    Los Angeles, Us
    Architected then led the development, deployment and operation of hardware and software solutions for in-store video advertising systems. Transitioned product line from legacy cable-TV technology to modern streaming media with sophisticated ad insertion and big-data analytics driving ad placements. Responsible for development and all DevOps. Teams based in San Francisco, Beijing and Shanghai China, Kobe Japan.
  • Iz-On (Formerly Prn, A Technicolor Company)
    Senior Director, Advanced Development Group
    Iz-On (Formerly Prn, A Technicolor Company) Dec 2009 - May 2011
    Los Angeles, Us
    Developed several next-generation products and proof-of-concept projects using a small crack team. Developed and managed all Intellectual Property including a dozen issued patents and nearly 40 patent applications in process.
  • Iz-On (Formerly Prn, A Technicolor Company)
    Director, Engineering
    Iz-On (Formerly Prn, A Technicolor Company) Apr 2004 - Dec 2009
    Los Angeles, Us
    Managed multiple teams responsible for both legacy systems as well as the development of a new IPTV advertising delivery network. Position led to promotion to VP Engineering.
  • Arkstream, Inc.
    Vp Engineering
    Arkstream, Inc. Jul 2003 - Feb 2004
    Designed, built and managed Engineering for a novel IPTV ad insertion product at a seed-stage startup. Company lost funding and did not bring a product to market.
  • Genesys Telecommunications Labs, Inc.
    Consulting Senior Software Engineer
    Genesys Telecommunications Labs, Inc. Jul 2000 - Jun 2003
    Wrote a telephony proxy server for voice response systems (IVR Server) and completely rewrote the Meridian/Symposium proxy server (T-Server). Both products were high performance networked software in C/C++.
  • Quicknet Technologies, Inc.
    Director, Engineering
    Quicknet Technologies, Inc. May 1999 - Jun 2000
    Founded a team to build a solution like Skype over 5 years before Skype. Solution used the company’s existing low-cost hardware PCI telephony card and enabled an arbitrage business model for IP telephony. Product launched and was growing before the web bubble burst and preventing scaling. Teams based in San Francisco and Texas.
  • Herlein Engineering
    Principal Software Engineer
    Herlein Engineering May 1998 - Apr 1999
    I founded a consulting and product development company to service the growing Linux market. Work in this era included an embedded system to detect birds near power lines, pre-802.11 wireless network device driver development, and various Linux-based traditional and IP-telephony products.
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    Sssg Support Engineer
    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Mar 1997 - Apr 1998
    Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Us
    Onboard support Engineer for the deep diving submarine Alvin and all scientific systems. Role included operations as well as custom development/interfacing of science instrumentation to the ship’s systems.
  • Pacific Gas & Electric
    Technologist - Research And Development
    Pacific Gas & Electric Jan 1992 - Mar 1997
    Oakland, California, Us
    Hardware and software developer for numerous data acquisition, instrumentation and networking projects, including a patented electrical system fault-detection system that deployed a very early embedded linux solution.
  • Us Navy
    Et1(Ss) - Engineering Watch Supervisor/Reactor Operator
    Us Navy Dec 1985 - Dec 1991
    Washington, Dc, Us
    Engineering Watch Supervisor/Reactor Operator/Electronics Technician on the US submarine USS Richard B. Russell (SSN-687). Operated and managed a nuclear powered steam propulsion and electric generation plant on a cold-war era submarine that was awarded three Navy Unit Citations and a Presidential Unit Citation while on board. Held a Top Secret/SCI clearance based on a Special Background Investigation (SBI).

Greg Herlein Skills

Cloud Computing Software Development Saas Agile Methodologies Mobile Devices Networking Linux Enterprise Software Digital Media Product Management Scrum Start Ups Streaming Media Software Engineering Unix Integration Voip Iptv Mysql Product Development System Architecture Mobile Applications Distributed Systems Cross Functional Team Leadership Embedded Systems Agile Project Management Mobile Technology Testing Python Web Services Rest Technology Product Development Telecommunications Wireless Web Applications Architectures Software Design Software As A Service Android Soa Java Scalability Representational State Transfer Team Leadership People Management Team Building Technical Product Development

Greg Herlein Education Details

  • Navy Nuclear Power Training
    Navy Nuclear Power Training
  • Chabot College
    Chabot College

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