As a Staff Engineer on the FordPass Cloud Platform team, I develop backend services and shape the future architectural roadmap of our systems. My focus areas include architecture design, delivery, process enhancements, and fostering collaboration across the organization to boost performance and efficiency.Key Contributions:+ Strategically guide the technical roadmap within the larger FordPass organization, identifying and capitalizing on opportunities for performance enhancements.+ Dedicate efforts to process improvement, maintaining high code quality, and setting exemplary standards that influence teams beyond my immediate scope.+ Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.+ Guided and project managed a new authorization service for FordPass, working with engineers to ensure successful delivery.+ Led the design and implementation of a new FordPass streaming capability utilizing an event driven architecture and WebSockets.Technologies:Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Run, GitHub Actions, Kotlin, Ktor, Java, Python, Redis, Kafka.

Lead two teams to develop internal tools for engineers and product features for Postscript customers. Worked across engineering teams to understand objectives and roadmaps and deliver results leading to better company metrics ultimately helping drive annual recurring revenue (ARR) for the company.Foundation team+ Improved production release time by 81%, leading to higher release velocity+ Improved integration time, builds, and tests by 62%, leading to faster code reviews and releases+ Created a new test environment to increase new feature output and give engineers more testing flexibility+ Led the team in overhauling our AWS infrastructure to make it self-serve for engineering teams, resulting in shorter time to create and test new product featuresData Platform team+ Optimized and stabilized our push to data warehouse pipeline from Postgres to Snowflake to achieve 99.9% uptime+ Hired and led a team to improve data quality specifically for calculating company business metrics such as Subscriber Lifetime Value (SLTV) and ARMR (Acquisition / Revenue per message)+ Leading a new team along with staff engineers to improve data scalability of our subscriber data, unlocking data driven insights for our customers in real timeBefore moving into management I was a Sr. Engineer focused on infrastructure & scale, devops, and backend software.

As the CTO of Bazze, I'm responsible for the technical architecture and vision for the company. Additionally, I:+ Lead the engineering team to meet product milestones.+ Build products to increase company revenue and win new business. Worked with customers and CEO to win initial $2M contract that laid groundwork to build our SaaS data product.+ Increased team size from 1 to 7 engineers in a year, created a technical interview process, and standardized onboarding and career development check ins.+ Collaborate with CEO to define product strategy in-line with overall company vision, such as developing a new pricing model based on customer data+ Built Bazze's data platform using server-less technologies on AWS such as API Gateway, Lambda, S3, SNS, and EMR

I work mostly on back-end web development, APIs, big data platforms, and blockchain (Ethereum). I'm also very good with AWS, setting up architectures and automated systems (continuous integration/delivery). I do some front-end work as well when required.Some things I've built recently:+ Django web application integration for an Ethereum smart contract. Used web3, truffle, javascript, python.+ Ethereum ERC-721 based NFT platform. https://gitcoin.co/kudos+ A server-less and micro-service architecture for a cloud-based IoT security system. Technologies used: Python, Flask, Swagger, AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate.+ A fully automated system for running tests, builds, and deploys, using Gitlab and Kubernetes.+ Data extraction for arbitrary financial transactions in bank statement PDFs (ETL)

At IST Research, I built large scale distributed systems, recruited new engineering talent, won new business, and mentored new engineers. Most work was funded by DARPA's MEMEX program. Responsibilities include:+ Work with management to develop technical strategies to win new contracts valued at $500k+.+ Recruited 5+ new engineers to the company through networks and attending Python Meetup groups.+ Mentor new engineers in the company, foster innovative engineering culture, reward successes.+ Drive remote engineering development of data collection and visualization systems. + Develop Python software focused on data collection, parsing and aggregation. See github.com/istresearch for open source software.+ Deploy and manage software applications and data infrastructure tools using Ansible. Applications are mostly monitored using supervisord, docker, and custom Flask code.+ Perform extraction, transformation, load (ETL) tasks with unstructured and structured data using Python, Storm, and Spark for processing.+ Set up data visualization dashboards using the Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK) stack.+ Work in a distributed engineering environment, interacting with the majority of co-workers through Slack, Google hangouts, and Github.

+ Successfully oversee the success of multiple $5M+ contracts, responsible for meeting all technical requirements.+ Work closely with VP of Product Management to ensure on time and on budget delivery.+ Work with 6+ separate engineering organizations to delegate technical tasks.+ Act as primary technical interface for signals intelligence systems to customers on multiple programs.+ Integrate and test complex network based systems – Linux, Solaris 10, Ubuntu, Windows 7.+ Work with JIRA, Accurev, CVS, Jenkins to manage code baseline and integrate into Linux based systems.+ Create and debug Linux Bash shell scripts in order to fix problems or solve new ones.+ Perform system network security assessments and secure system for connection to external networks.+ Make high level technical decisions and provide programmatic inputs for schedule and budget.+ Contribute to proposal efforts to develop solutions and concepts of operations for customer needs.+ Work on technical white papers for proposed system solutions.+ Develop system engineering solutions to obsolescence issues and perform trade studies.

+ Over 2 years experience in integration and test on RF based systems and troubleshooting issues.+ Focused on prosecution of wireless communication signals (FSK, PSK, OOK, CDMA, TDMA).+ Worked closely with the system architect to write test plans to help meet technical requirements.+ Chosen by management to lead a team demonstration on system capabilities.+ Integrated RF demodulation software and worked with subcontractors to resolve software issues.+ Used MATLAB to create my own software to aid in integrated efforts.+ Documented software functionality and use in the system solution.+ Demonstrated technical capabilities of the software to the customer.

Worked with Professor Tansu at Lehigh University on GaN based blue LED structures and tunable laser diodes for use in the 3 – 5 micron wavelength regime