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California, United States

Comuna 12, Autonomous City Of Buenos Aires, Ar

We’re not just another service provider; we’re your partners in success. Our combined leadership in the US and a highly skilled team in Argentina bring together the best of both worlds to offer seamless and high-quality digital product development services. Partners include global Fortune 500 companies (Verizon, Disney+) and funded startups of all stripes.Sample list of custom GenAI solutions built:1. FlowFile: an AI-powered platform designed to automate manual work for real estate teams. https://portfolio.gm2dev.com/projects/flowfile2. Synergy: AI-powered workforce management platform for call center efficiency.https://portfolio.gm2dev.com/projects/synergy3. ZNest: a B2B management tool for elderly care centers. https://portfolio.gm2dev.com/projects/znest

New Delhi, New Delhi, In

Burlingame, Ca, Us

Leading AI data platform for anonymous people sensing.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Exit to CRED (Indian fintech unicorn).

New York, Ny, Us

Technology advisor

Merged with GM2.AI and technology infrastructure/platform architecture. Petabyte-scale automation.Focused on product adoption and strategy for custom generative AI solutions in the enterprise.

San Francisco, California, Us

Gap Inc family of brands (2nd apparel e-commerce in market share): Old Navy, Athleta, Gap, Banana Republic• Led multiple cross-functional digital modernization and continuous delivery platform initiatives• Gap Continuous Delivery platform buildout on top of Azure's managed Kubernetes (AKS) to move towards distributed architectural patterns (microservices, microfrontends, containerization)• Drive Kubernetes and cloud-native CI/CD tools (ArgoCD, Github Actions, etc.) adoption• Partnered with GapTech HR team to interview over 150+ candidates for GapTech early career engineering programs (called "GapTech Rotational Program")• Mentored 1st batch of GRP program participants on cloud engineering topics

San Francisco, California, Us

On prem to Azure cloud migration/modernization for critical inventory, mobile POS, store and site management systems.

San Francisco, California, Us

Technologies: large-scale distributed systems, Chef, Linux, *nix systems management, Redhat enterprise systems, MySQL, Tomcat, Git, TCP/IP, Ruby, Bash, Nginx, Jenkins, encryption (ChefVault), Guardicore, REST APIs, ChefSpec, Inspec, automated provisioning, NetBoot, Infoblox API. • Subject-matter expert (SME) on infra-as-code and member of the core platform services team at Gap. Responsibilities include ensuring reliability and performance of all Chef clusters (including Corporate Systems, Online, Stores, and international Stores) in production and development environments, automating toil, writing and maintaining core infrastructure cookbooks, and troubleshooting app cookbooks across the company• Handled coverage for 24x7 on-call rotation for critical production systems• Executed an upgrade of all clusters to the latest open source release of Chef without impacting performance or causing an outage• Provided cost savings of $6MM/yr by avoiding failures to deploy fixes for applications/store terminals run on 25K VMs in development and production environments• Worked closely with the Network Security team to tag all our compute resources in PCI and non-PCI zones for implementing software-defined network microsegmentation. Fed them to the Guardicore API for workload protection to prevent the spread of breaches inside data center and cloud environments• Spearheaded the move to cloud native infrastructure with container-based deployments using Docker and Kubernetes. I provide the necessary in-depth expertise on our existing infrastructure (35+ cookbooks) to retool them to Docker/Kubernetes-based solutions for use by Gap's worldwide app teams. The project is essential to Gap Inc.'s strategic objective of moving 80% of production workloads to the public cloud by 2020• Modernized monitoring for Chef clusters via New Relic infrastructure alerts to replace Nagios• Provided cost savings of $250,000 on Chef contract in Q2 2018

San Francisco, California, Us

Part of the Shared Services DevOps organization under the umbrella of the CTO. Our division's goal is to increase speed and agility of Gap's worldwide development & operations teams while supporting infrastructure tools that help app teams deploy their applications to production. Member of Automation, Deploy & CI Support Tools group.• Tested and upgraded all base infrastructure cookbooks from Chef 12.4.1 to Chef 13 for Rhel 6,7 systems on 3K VMs• Automated mounting of filesystems, system account creation and created an integration and unit testing suite for Apigee API gateway clusters• Automated setup of Artifactory Xray with Chef and Docker to provide deep recursive scanning of all artifacts inside Gap to alert GapTech Security team on critical vulnerabilities• Wrote a 70-page manual for configuration management team to help troubleshoot Chef issues• Unblock inventory, next-generation POS, business intelligence and corporate systems teams on production deployments in Jenkins/Chef-based CD pipeline• Provide extensive troubleshooting of applications and server environments

Belmont, Ca, Us

Advised a global retailer from Ukraine on their tech innovation strategy.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

Acquired by K12 Inc. for $165M.Projects:• Fitd: platform to help you find clothes that fit. Stack: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Javascript, fitting algorithm based on 1.5K garments from 90 major retail vendors. https://www.getfitd.com• Cassim: 2-sided marketplace like Etsy. Stack: Rails 4, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Pinterest-style UI, web-scraping w/ Selenium WebDriver• Bootstrap Labs: Meteor.js CRM tool for angel investors & portfolio companies. Stack: Meteor.js, Express, Node.js, non-relational database (MongoDB)• Distribu.td: Rails 4 prototype for wholesale e-commerce platform. Stack: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, jQuery• FreeCodeCamp.com (open source): chatbot for Gitter in 'vanilla' JS. Node.js app built on top of Express. Stack: Javascript, Node.js, Express

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Zazzle is a leading user-generated custom goods marketplace (revenue ~$250M) in the US. Funded by early Google investors John Doerr and Ram Shriram.• Acted as the main point of contact for the API partnership with Airbnb. The campaign's goal was to empower Airbnb community to express their unique identity via branded merchandise. Partnership received a lot of press attention• Sourced, negotiated and closed strategic partnership agreements with brands such as Nickelodeon (Viacom), Mattel, Airbnb, Urban Dictionary, The Atlantic, US Army, Cartoon Network, The Bold Italic, Baltimore Sun, etc. • Worked cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Marketing & Legal teams to ensure smooth launch of API & partner integrations• Worked on partner marketing for over 300+ brands currently on the Zazzle platform, and collaborated with the world's top advertising & PR agencies (R/GA, BBDO, Hunter PR, etc.) on brand engagement campaigns• Used metrics to evaluate opportunities and drive site-wide impactZazzle brands list: http://www.zazzle.com/brandpartners

Sold assets to an Emirati entrepreneur.Product Management & General Management:• Led product development from ideation to launch. Built a Ruby on Rails application in 1.5 months on a bootstrapped budget that received praise from multiple design blogs• Created all site mockups and designed UI/UX flow of the app• Effectively managed a cross-functional remote team to expedite time to market• Performed usability testing via UserTesting.com, customer research, and product feedback from distribution partnersBusiness Development & Marketing:• Negotiated a key distribution partnership with Square, Inc. resulting in bi-weekly deliveries of snacks that boosted company revenues 5x• Secured 35+ ingredient vendors and 4 pre-launch distribution partners• Managed SEO and link-building process, boosting site’s rank to 2nd page in Google for 10+ snack-related keywords in 4 months via on-site SEO tag optimization• Secured multiple promotional features from health bloggers

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Acquired by Google.Built on ideas that served as a precursor to 'The Social Dilemma' 2020 American docudrama film.• First business development hire at a semantic search startup• Drove business development, product marketing, and sales strategy• Inspired growth that ultimately led to a successful Google acquisition in 2011• Expanded publisher ecosystem 20x from <1,000 partners to over 20K active content publishers• Combined a consultative sales strategy with an educational approach to win over multiple decision makers• Attended conferences (SXSW, etc.) to meet prospects in person and demo the product

New York, Ny, Us

Portfolio construction and management for ultra high net worth individuals (UHNWI).

B.S., Business Administration, Economics

Software Engineering

Cognitive Science

Associate'S Degree, Economics