Gigawatt is an advanced distributed highly-available intelligent Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for running and managing web applications. It combines containerization and machine learning to take applications to the next level. Application performance, security, and scalability are automatically turbocharged by constantly analyzing application behavior to optimize configurations and environments.

A highly scalable cyber security platform and solution used by fortune 500 enterprise companies like Facebook, JPMC, and Shell.• Hired and managed a globally distributed engineering organization.• Collaborated with executive and sales teams, and high-value customers to develop engineering roadmaps.• Served as program manager for all engineering efforts.• Completed customer-specific feature requests to support aggressive sales goals.End-to-end ownership and development of:• Crawler, ingestion, and machine-learning pipeline.• On-premise threat detection appliance.• Multi-tenant pre-materialized views indexer.• Security product integrations for a variety of SIEMs (e.g. ArcSight, Splunk).• The first threat intelligence crowdsourcing platform.

• Led an agile team to build a fast and reliable VoIP and SMS cloud-based telecommunications platform.• Built and open-sourced a PaaS written in Go with LXC and HAProxy (http://shipbuilder.io).• Designed and implemented application-level sharding system for true horizontal scalability using Postgresql and Python.• Created automatic Postgres query compiler which parses SQL and produces distributed queries.• Architected bulk SMS multiplexing system with real-time transmission throughput control and a multiplexing scheme to ensure efficient and fair bandwidth sharing between customers.• Handled infrastructure purchasing, scaling, monitoring, networking, security, and SSL cert processes for the entire organization.

• Led a lean team to architect, design and implement client-driven engagement platform in Play/Scala backend with user-facing frontend Ul in Node.js.• Architected and developed entirety of Klout’s self-service advertising marketing platform.• Built ElasticSearch client library for real-time user targeting system.• Implemented and maintained Twitter and Gnip streaming data collectors for analytics platform.• Implemented genetic and machine-learning algorithms for features on k|out.com.• Created scoring review system used to train models for social networks (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.)

• Led large team of engineers in developing a Flash-based social game.• Designed RESTful modular web service game logic architecture.• Implemented game backend using PHP and MySQL whose architecture scales to handle 20M+ daily users.• Implemented game API client library using AS3.

• Implemented generic web services framework in PHP utilizing SOAP, used to securely sync and manage information over public networks.• Developed template-based code generation system in PHP to automate form and model class generation from database schema.• Designed and implemented bug tracking system using Python and MySQL with associated XML-RPC API.

• Implemented browser-based LDAP driven unified authentication system in PHP.• Designed and implemented extensible Inventory Control System with associated XML-RPC API.• Designed and implemented high-performance database-driven Carrier Call Data Record automated storage, frontend and retrieval systems. Comprised of automated record retrieval (Python, Mechanize, Twisted), parser (Python), database (MySQL-Cluster) and frontend user-interface (PHP, XML/JSON).• Lead creation of departmental standards, procedures and practices for bug reporting, security, version control, backups and peer review.

• Designed, implemented and maintained an innovative internal reporting database and frontend interface used to track, organize, and export data from medical clinical trials. This system was instrumental in obtaining FDA approval for their Insight Endocardial Visualization System.