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Jakarta, Indonesia

Bringing Silicon Valley to Indonesia ... developing industry leading AI and Blockchain products for the South East Asia Market. Specialized in Digital Transformation for Agile Development including Scrum, Lean Startup, Cloud Native, AI (Deep Learning) and Blockchain Application Development, SRE and Infrastructure as Code practices. Extensive experience in cloud, mobile, scalable AI and related technologies and agile processes including AWS(EC2, EMR, FAAS, etc), Docker Clusters, CI/CD, TDD, Terraform, 7/24 Operations, CyberSecurity (NIST/ISO27001) and related. Love to bring energy and innovation and build teams to solve hard customer problems...

San Jose

Lean business model research and development for prospect markets including BlockChain FinTech and Deep Learning AI Security startups. Product prototype development utilizing Ethereum smart contract platform and theano/tensorflow frameworks on Django/Python AWS cloud service. Also participated as an strategic advisor and angel investor in conjunction with several silicon valley based startups.

Key contributor in conceptualizing product idea's, developing service and product architecture and technology roadmap / vision, co-authoring business plan and company fund raising. Responsible for management, staffing and day to day operations of Engineering, QA and 7x24 Operations department for industry leading Local merchant sales analytics and engagement platform. Platform features include large scale local merchant sales analytics and automated engagement workflow (email/fax/etc), Machine Learning based content optimization, REST based analytics access and related services. Company pivoted from deals focused platform which supported REST based deals feeds, mobile touch optimized( IPhone/IPad/Android) consumer deals management, fax/email deal notifications, facebook integration, deal administration/creation/analytics, automated machine learning based merchant targeting/deal creation and real-time location based deal delivery. Products leverage Django/python in a big data platform utilizing mongodb/hadoop/machine learning for big data analytics computation and a highly scalable public cloud service based infrastructure(AWS).• Successfully launched mobile partner enablement project leading to 5x subscriber expansion.• Represented engineering/tech in closing several top tier VC funding rounds.

Drove technical due diligence of acquisition effort of Collaborative Application/Email Platform company by Proofpoint. Subsequently staffed, managed and expanded on and offshore (India, China) teams and lead re-architecture of SaaS based Collaborative Email Platform to enterprise enable products. Platform supports Hosted Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Mobile Device Support (ActiveSync implementation), Outlook Connector, shared address book and shared documents in hosted multi-tenant environment. Platform leveraged Java, Resin App Servers, Mysql DB, GWT/JSF implementation technologies. Established one year Product and Technical roadmap for Email Platform product line. Introduced cloud services and drove integration of Hadoop, Storage Cloud and related services to enable availability improvements, service cost reduction and product feature enhancements.• Successfully transitioned team to use of On/Offshore Scrum Agile Development process, Test Driven Development and Automated Testing (Selenium)/Continuous Integration.

Staffed, managed and lead all core engineering efforts for industry leading Anti Spam/Virus, encryption and DLP (Digital Leak Prevention) appliance based email security platform. Products support multi-protocol real-time scanning of SMTP, http, ftp streams in hosted and on-premise environments. Drove company wide intellectual property efforts leading to 6 patents pending. Product leverages internet cloud based distributed architecture over SOAP/REST utilizing Java, Perl, C++ technologies.· Advocated and successfully instituted Scrum Agile Development process across company leading to improved resource management, reduced time to market and improved quality. · Proofpoint recently acknowledged as Leader in Gartner Email Security Magic Quadrant.• Drove technical due diligence for Encryption company acquisition and successfully delivered integrated product with newly integrated team.

Lead multiple teams of engineers in architecting key system components for industry leading highly scalable enterprise email based Spam/Virus filtering product line. Areas of responsibility included distributed message quarantine management, end user applications/digest, distributed real-time fingerprinting, AV/Spam real-update web services, MS Exchange 2003 integration (SCL)/LDAP and service side integration (SOAP). Product leverages industry leading machine learning technology on distributed message processing intrastructure utilizing SMTP, C++/Perl, SOAP, HTTP on linux/unix platforms. Also responsible for overall project and engineering resource management of entire product line.· Developed and deployed Sender IP Reputation service within 3 months and lead industry for service metrics within 6 month(Yes you read that correctly).· Developed industry leading Anti-Spam technology recognized as highest performing in the industry.

(Acquired NetDrive) Responsible for establishing technology and product direction and architecture plus from scratch staffing and management of multi-device multi-location (India,Glendale,Mountain View) development teams. Product line focused on device resident (PocketPC, Palm, Brew, J2ME), and server side applications supporting secure synchronized offline and direct real-time access to corporate messaging and PIM data (MS Exchange) for both Enterprise and Carrier markets. Developed industry leading technology and architecture leveraging MS .Net, SyncML, SOAP, ISAPI, JSP/Servlets, WAP, SMS(NBS), Messaging protocols/encoding (SMTP/RFC822/MIME), Windows NT server and GSM/CDMA/SMS wireless infrastructure.- Established corporate wide technology roadmap and directions.

Key contributor in conceptualizing product idea's, developing service and product architecture and technology roadmap / vision, co-authoring business plan and company fund raising. Responsible for management, staffing and operations of Engineering/QA/ Operations for industry leading Internet storage portal. Portal features include industry leading technology including Windows File System Drivers, WebDAV Support (XML/HTTP 1.1) with proprietary extensions (stream compression, quota management), LDAP, Java Servlet/Bean/JSP based local and remote Web File Operations plus Pier to Pier File Sharing, SOAP based API, WAP Client support and digital picture management built on an Apache/Linux/ Cisco powered infrastructure.· Service received numerous product review win's including CNet Web Warehouse Review and Digital Time Review.· History of on time and on or under budget product delivery.· Numerous acquisition offers from industry leading companies including Yahoo and Storage Networks.

Responsible for developing corporate Internet technology plan and product strategy for both synchronous and asynchronous Desktop Distance Learning (DDL) product lines. Staffed, managed and served as chief architect for Advanced Technology Group responsible for new product conceptualization and prototyping. Product development focused on development and utilization of MS Windows NT/95 based real-time RTP multi-cast audio/video, RSVP, HTML/HTTP, Java, ActiveX/OLE,DCOM, XML, NetShow and Active Server technologies. Initiated strategic technology partner relationships and served as Chief Technologist during related business negotiations.- Successfully conceived, architected and brought to market initial release of both asynchronous (2Q99) and synchronous Desktop IDL product lines.- Acquired by Hughes Network Systems, Apollo Group

Staffed, managed and lead multi-teamed engineering department responsible for all facets of product development including software design and development, test and documentation. Budget Size - $2M/yr. Introduced and deployed formalized software development process. Successfully delivered multiple product generations of mainline IDL product family. Spearheaded product technology directions including migration to Windows NT, IP Based real-time audio and data communications, and adoption of standard PC components for embedded system development.· Product family is defacto standard for Interactive Distance Learning (IDL) Market