The IOx team is implementing the next-generation storage engine for InfluxDB. This is a greenfield project, with high visibility across the company.As engineering manager, I see my role as unblocking engineers (similar to tech lead, but in other ways):- affirm talent and contributions- crystallize and update short-term and long-term goals to the members of team, and to the rest of the company- socialize priorities- hire and retain great people

As the InfluxDB storage team tech lead, I removed blockers for my teammates.- do everything in the open- volunteer for interruptions- lead technical design sessions- document (and encouraged documenting) redundant/tedious tasks- communicate status and progress to management- work closely with my direct manager on priorities and processOn of my biggest software contributions during this time was the "storage controller", a Kubernetes operator that replaces StatefulSets for the InfluxDB Cloud 2 distributed storage engine.

Member of the storage team. Feature and legacy work on the InfluxDB storage engine, improving performance, correctness, stability. My contributions touched InfluxDB OSS 1.x and 2.x, InfluxDB Enterprise, and InfluxDB Cloud.

I worked on the Kochava Collective product. When V2 launched in July 2017, my team delivered our part of the product on time.- batch and streaming pipelines with Apache Beam and Redshift (5 billion records per day)- streaming pipelines implemented in Go (40,000 QPS)- APIs implemented in GoI also kicked off code review and coding standards at Kochava.

2011-2013Worked on the Java+Megastore backend that powers Google's knowledge management system. I helped re-write the backend: lower latency, fewer lines of code.2014-2015Took the role of Site Reliability Engineer temporarily. Worked on the BeyondCorp project, then transitioned to the Google Cloud Print team. I designed and implemented the Google Cloud Print CUPS/Windows Connector.2016Worked for the Customer Acquisition Platform in Ads. We apply big data pipelines and machine learning to a list of all companies worldwide, to find good sales prospects for Adwords.

HUMINT collector, deployed to Afghanistan in 2008.

Started out as an intern in Shenzhen during the summer of 2010, then stayed on as a remote marketing representative for the next year. As a marketing rep, I interacted with customers to answer questions and resolve issues. This helped the company understand existing use cases and to develop new products.

I designed and implemented payload control software for UAVs. Our UAV took first place in the 2011 AUVSI SUAS competition.

Systems Management (Linux, Samba, Apache, Windows, SQL Server)Software Engineering (PHP, ASP)

Worked on a desktop GUI application written in C.