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Elmwood Park, NJ, US

- Consumer-grade and business-grade intermittently connected beverage (tea, coffee) appliances. - Architected the entire distributed system, data model, adaptive cloud REST API, and the low-level binary APIs over BLE.- Awarded a patent on an innovative method for infusing tea and other beverages.- Managed the remote mobile application and firmware teams..

San Francisco, California, US

- Commercial smokeless & ventless permanently connected coffee bean roaster appliance.- Architected the entire distributed system, data model, device telemetry data collection, bidirectional connectivity, and all the APIs, including low-level binary protocols.- Coded the cloud services, and the appliance multi-channel communication processor.- Lead the.

Mountain View, California, US

- Consumer-grade intermittently connected appliance startup.- Architected the entire distributed system, adaptive cloud REST API including recipe calibration, and the appliance local APIs. - Coded the cloud services, analytics data streaming pipeline, and the appliance high-level processor.- Lead the software team (cloud, web, mobile, firmware)..

Eindhoven, North Brabant, NL

- Consumer-grade action camera with connected sensors, computational imaging including video-editing and contextual location services.- Lead the overall architecture including the cloud micro-services and 3rd party developer offering (REST API, SDKs, data mining infrastructure).- Carried out machine learning studies and iOS prototypes for reverse.

Eindhoven, North Brabant, NL

- New generation of a Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS).- Architected and lead the platform development effort bringing over 30% reductions in operations costs, and 10x scalability increase.- Designed an on-demand lightweight data synchronization mechanism on top of the MBaaS REST API.- Technologies: AWS ecosystem, Cloud micro-services, REST, Java.

Eindhoven, North Brabant, NL

- Assumed the technical leadership of 100+ global engineering workforce for OVI Sync, a cloud-based data synchronization service supporting over 250 mobile device variants.- Architected the platform evolution to support a 1000x data increase, to reach 3+ billion user records, by introducing pub/sub messaging, smarter device variant plugin, database and.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

- Lead delegate for Nokia in the OMA DS (Data Synchronization), OMA DM (Device Management) and OMA CP (Client Provisioning) groups.- Contributed a major addition to the OMA DS standard on advanced mobile email capabilities.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

- Managed and built up a global team of senior architects working on Intellisync Suite, the world's second-ranked enterprise mobile solution for email, data synchronization and device management.- Architected new cluster deployment, database schema and sharding bringing 3x performance increase, and 30% reduction in hosting costs.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

- Managed and co-built a 50+ global engineering workforce working on Intellisync SyncML Server and Instant Messaging Server, and their associated clients.- Architected and led the SyncML server 15x performance increases.- Architected and led the development of a custom SyncML Server based service for NTT DoCoMo, growing from 0 to nearly 1 billion user data.

- Managed and built up a development team working on a media sharing solution offering media synchronization, transcoding and sharing.- Innovated a hybrid P2P and client/server architecture approach based on XMPP and REST services.- Architected and implemented 95% of the J2EE server with a 90% JUnit coverage.

- Managed and built up a development team working on 3 servers: Sync-it (SyncML synchronization), Mind-it (web change detection and notification), and Browse-it (proxy-based mobile web browser). - Designed a unified and consolidated Oracle database schema for the 3 servers.

- Provided technical leadership to Fortune 500 US customers deploying a document life cycle solution.

Ramonville-Sainte Agne, FR

- Led and designed the European Space Agency [ESA] International Space Station [ISS] financial data warehouse project based on Oracle and SAP's Business Objects.

- Designed and implemented Oracle schemas and procedures of space and launchers related projects.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

- Carried out research on object oriented design methods, database modeling, hypermedia and intelligent interface.

Ph.D., Computer Science

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science