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California, United States

Mountain View, Wy, Us

AI driven data systems + blockchain technologies

Decentralized, Us

Leadership and support for our reliability, infrastructure, monitoring and telemetry, and productivity engineering / quality teams.- Built out a Site Reliability Engineering organization (Production Engineering), including en embedded function to drive reliability and related best practices across product and service engineering teams.- Bootstrapped multiple new teams, including a monitoring infrastructure function to own an internal Grafana / Prometheus stack, a technical support function for our external Node Operators, and a Productivity Engineering organization focused on full lifecycle SDLC improvement / developer happiness and velocity.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

SRE leadership for the Consumer space, covering everything from the Twitter owned and operated apps (mobile and web), through the front-facing product stack on down to the core services managing users, tweets, machine learning infra and enterprise Developer Platform systems.

Production Engineering for the Zeus team (Apache Zookeeper)

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

- Platform and Performance SRE- Capacity Engineering: creating insights into performance and capacity impact throughout all stages of the SDLC.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Leadership of a site reliability engineering team tasked with the management of service infrastructure (Rest.li, D2), presentation tier services (Play framework), i18n (internationalization) systems and horizontal initiatives (high impact, cross functional projects). Additionally, we work with engineering teams to help ensure high scalability and reliability of their services.Current projects include:- Lead ongoing efforts in efficient resource isolation, management and containerization (à la Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos, etc...)- Live performance testing of critical frontend and mid-tier systems

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Leadership for a team of 15 including developers, project managers, QA analysts, systems engineers and helpdesk personnel.Lead dev strategy and implementation of Poptent sites, including the following:■ Definition of Poptent's technology roadmap.■ Increase product quality through the introduction of unit testing standards and automation, continuous integration, proper coding standards, and peer code review.■ Migration of previous SVN version control to a DVCS system (Mercurial) with proper branching (HG-Flow).■ Implementation of a disaster recovery plan with a highly available, virtualized environment.■ Introduction of an Agile Scrum PM process utilizing Jira Agile.■ Introduction of an organization-wide knowledge base utilizing Confluence.Secondarily, I act as a systems administrator, architect, and lead developer (filling a devops type role), project manager (Agile), and product owner.Technologies implemented and/or supported (in addition to those in my previous technical lead role) include:■ High availability data infrastructure using Galera MySQL and HAProxy.■ High availability and load balanced app infrastructure using Apache, PHP 5, and HAProxy.■ High availability and load balanced search infrastructure using Solr (SolrCloud) and Zookeeper.■ Fully config managed infrastructure using Ansible.■ Deployment automation using Ansible and (soon) Jenkins.■ Build management and testing using Jenkins.■ Centralized logging using ELK (Logstash, Kibana, Elasticsearch) and Redis.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Lead development and architecture of all Poptent web properties.Technologies implemented / highlights include:■ End to end technology stack, utilizing:□■ Raw javascript and Mootools (later jQuery)□■ LAMP components (Linux - Apache - MySQL - PHP), Nginx, and HAProxy□■ Memcached□■ Solr / Tomcat□■ Monit and Nagios / Check MK■ Various PHP frameworks including: CakePHP, Zend Framework.■ Creation of a video encoding services utilizing FFMpeg, Mplayer, and Quicktime.■ Creation of a live chat system, media platform, profile system, assignment system (allowing media creators to submit creative to brand marketers)■ Exchange email environment, utilizing Linux and Windows to achieve high availability (DAG).■ VMWare ESXi and Proxmox (Linux KVM) virtualization solutions.■ Dell / Cisco network stack.■ End to end technology build-outs of primary and satellite offices.■ Internal systems management for a mixed Mac / Windows environment utilizing AD.■ Amazon S3, Cloudfront, and EC2 infrastructure.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬What is Poptent?Poptent (www.poptent.com) is a crowdsourced video production company for leading brands and agencies, producing commercials and other video assets through a powerful social network of more than 65,000 videographers in over 140 countries. Poptent's marketing and social networking professionals work with clients to develop high quality commercials and other video assets at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods for both online and offline use. Founded in 2007, Poptent's principal offices are in Southern California and suburban Philadelphia, with regional sales offices in New York, and other key US markets.

Vermillion, Sd, Us

Website development for www.usd.edu, application security, and linux/unix administration.One of my first tasks included training the existing technology team on application security risks including SQL injection and cross site scripting.Also lead the research, selection, and initial implementation and development efforts for replacing our home grown CMS system with CommonSpot CMS for better workflow management, SEO and taxonomy.Technologies utilized include: ■ Raw javascript and jQuery■ Coldfusion■ Java and Apache Tomcat■ PHP■ Solaris 9 and 10, Redhat■ Microsoft SQL programming and administration■ MySQL programming and administration■ Oracle programming

Helpdesk, systems and network architecture, IT policy planning and implementation.

Computer Science

Computer And Information Sciences