Managed a team of geographically distributed engineers across North America, Europe, and India.Oversaw several projects that cut monthly cloud spend by 50% via a streamlined architecture and component substitution, resource rightsizing, data retention policies, and managing inter-availability zone network traffic. Tech stack: Kafka, SQS, S3, Istio, Postgres, KubernetesManaged proof of concept implementation of a data pipeline for business analytics, customer dashboards, and AI/ML use cases. Tech stack: Postgres, Debezium, Onehouse (Apache Hudi), Dagster, DBT, Starrocks, Clickhouse.

Architected and implemented a real-time, event-driven threat detection engine that scans Kubernetes clusters for attack paths, combining factors such as exposure to the internet, auth misconfigurations, and image CVE vulnerabilities. Tech stack: Kafka, Neo4j, Postgres, Go, Kubernetes.Designed a global tagging system to allow resources and threats to be tagged for filtering and workflow response actions, such as notifications or automated remediations.Designed a data pipeline to ingest high volumes of event data for automated threat detection and response. The pipeline also preserves per-tenant data isolation, as well as providing the flexibility to comply with data sovereignty requirements.Managed teams implementing new Kubernetes runtime threat detection products (see https://rad.security) as well as identity-related security products, which detect risks based on misconfigurations, violations of the principle of least privilege, and anomalous behavior.

Designed and implemented a pre-ordering workflow that enables users to authorize Dapper to charge their credit cards upon delivery of digital assets, with a focus on idempotency and resilience to failures in Blockchain processing, payments processor issues, and other dependencies. Stack used: Go, Kubernetes, Kafka, GraphQL, Postgres, Prometheus/Grafana, and Grafana Tempo for distributed traces.Designed and implemented a content screening service to ensure that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) published to the Flow blockchain via Dapper Platform conform to Dapper’s standards and risk criteria. Stack used: Go, Kubernetes, Temporal, GraphQL, Google Cloud Spanner.Impacted by the 20% reduction in force conducted in February 2023.

Designed and implemented a new architecture and data model for the Insights team, enabling real-time timeseries analytics, including workflow duration, success rate, flaky test detection, and CI resource utilization.Stack used: Go, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Postgres, Snowflake, Redis.

Designed and implemented distributed recommendation system for optimizing test parallelization efficiency and continuous integration configurations.With CircleCI's transition from Clojure to Go, helped establish company standards around Go adoption, and onboarded several engineers to Go. Mentored engineers in Go, containerization, and technical design.Designed and prototyped an event proxying and data lake solution (Protobuf, RabbitMQ, Firehose, S3, AWS Glue).

Rearchitected distribution systems to an asynchronous, event driven model to be resilient to database failure and network splits (queueing events via Google PubSub, reading from a Redis cache in the critical path, and asynchronous writes to a CloudSQL Postgres database).Extracted EverQuote's business-facing campaign management functionality from a Rails monolith into a new service, exposing it via a RESTful API based on an OpenAPI specification. This enabled EverQuote's largest client to automate its bidding strategy, and provided for a more robust and independently scalable architecture.Served as technical lead for a cross-functional effort to provide insurance quotes via email to users in remarketing campaigns, providing a new channel for carriers to grow their business with EverQuote.Served as technical lead for a cross-functional group implementing a machine learning-driven managed bidding service that improved client returns on ad spend by 30% to 200%.Created a bespoke logging library to standardize the tracing of correlation IDs across Go applications, and prototyped the implementation of OpenTelemetry and Jaeger for distributed tracing.Created an integration tester application (Elixir and Go on the backend, React/TypeScript on the front-end) to stress test applications in an end-to-end workflow, and also simulate fault injection to expose bugs before deployment to production.

Built an ecosystem of microservices in Go, orchestrated in Kubernetes, to manage distribution of leads. Integrated EverQuote applications with partner APIs and developed API endpoints for partners to utilize. Participated in the development of and reporting on A/B tests to improve website performance. Major projects included a real time bidding system, a user session replay and screenshot service (compliance), a click-stream collection and analysis service, a performance improvement initiative through caching and background worker utilization, and managing the codebase and deployment of the consumer-facing application for EverQuote's home product offering.Frameworks and technologies used: Go (Golang), Javascript (ES6), Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Serverless (AWS Lambda), Docker, Google Kubernetes Engine, AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, AWS S3, AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL

Researched and created algorithmic trading strategies for the foreign exchange and equities markets using Excel, Metatrader 4, FXCM’s ForexConnect API, and Interactive Brokers’ API. Built models focused on statistical arbitrage, momentum, and minimum volatility, developed using Excel and Javascript. Managed business development, marketing, and cash flow of the limited liability corporation to ensure financial stability.

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Performed all financial activities to include P&L statements and management reports. Completed bank reconciliations, created invoices and coordinated collections on overdue accounts. Managed payroll of 15 employees and oversaw relationship with employee 401(k) plan administrator. Supported a significant increase in productivity levels and efficiency in time management by streamlining accounting processes.

Managed a portfolio of over 20 properties across two states. Performed due diligence for acquisitions, regular cash flow analysis and valuation to determine portfolio mix and timing of acquisitions and disposals, and prepared quarterly financial statements for the shareholders.

Worked on nine capital markets transactions that raised over US$2.0 billion in funds on behalf of homebuilding clients through first time and follow-on equity offerings, investment grade and high yield bond sales, and private placements. Performed valuations using comparative company and precedent transaction multiples, and built discounted cash flow, leveraged buyout, accretion/dilution, credit analysis and other custom financial models. Conducted due diligence, developed earn-out valuation models and proposals and wrote information memoranda for sell-side transactions with a purchase value of US$600 million. Contributed to both deal origination and execution including pitching, creating board materials and contributing to the drafting of offering circulars, rating agency, roadshow and sales presentations. High level of client contact.

Analyzed data across twenty one hospitals to identify US$40 million in savings opportunities through supply chain optimization. Developed tools in Microsoft Excel and Access to analyze complex savings models in Pharmacy-related supplies, yielding an additional US$10 million in savings. Created detailed PowerPoint presentations and reports to update and educate client on savings initiatives. Served as project control officer to coordinate CSC and client efforts, to track savings progress, and to produce dashboard reports for hospital CEOs.

Supported development of an ROI model for a leading clinical information system with metrics including operational efficiency, utilization and market share, staff and physician satisfaction, cash collection rate, and clinical quality. Led a team in analyzing current state of clinical information management and redesigning process of consolidating patient data within the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. Led cross-functional teams of clinicians, vendors, and consultants to implement a new clinical information system, Cerner Millennium. Designed and facilitated implementation of training system for transition to the new clinical information system.

Conducted research for bills concerning banking and foreign affairs in order to brief and advise the Senator. Analyzed letters from constituents to classify priority of upcoming bills and created executive summaries in order to brief staff. Wrote letters to constituents to clarify the Senator’s positions and resolve outstanding questions or comments from the constituents. Research included U.S. involvement in Colombian drug trade and activities of Colombian rebels. Systemized data collection techniques.