Director, Software Engineering
CurrentBuilding the next generation of Cloud based programming and playout systems for iHeartmedia's 1000s of radio stations, serving a quarter of a billion monthly listeners.Managing multiple onshore and offshore teams building Microservice and Serverless applications to help the production, generation, and orchestration of broadcast content to deliver audio continuously and uninterrupted 24x7, 365.I have been the driving force behind improvement of quality of systems, stability of platforms and our ability to withstand AWS outages. I mentor, coach and lead from the front.I have re-architected back end systems, replaced entire core messaging patterns and improved general compute stability, reducing our reliance on out of hours support teams.I have built new CI/CD flows, automated nearly everything, standardized the way we build software and introduced AI assisted tooling. We deliver more frequently and reliably.