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San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Supercharging the relationship between Content Creators and Storytellers. Hiring for all engineering disciplines!

San Francisco, Ca, Us

The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) provides technical leadership to the cloud native community. Its functions include:- Defining and maintaining the technical vision for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation,- Approving new projects and creating a conceptual architecture for the projects,- Aligning projects and removing or archiving projects,- Accepting feedback from end user committee and mapping to projects,- Aligning interfaces to components under management (code reference implementations before standardizing), and- Defining common practices to be implemented across CNCF projects.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Leading an amazing team of engineers and engineering leaders working to build and operate a first-class Cloud Platform and Serverless Database as a Service. Whether you're looking to get into the deep operational characteristics of a company sustaining cloud platform, dive deep into the internals of kubernetes to build world-class integrations, building tooling suites to improve the day-to-day of your fellow engineers, or dive deep into the internals of Apache Cassandra and our serverless DBaaS Astra we have a place for you on our growing Astra team at DataStax

San Francisco, California, Us

Director of the Big Data Software Engineering and DevOps groups currently tasked with enhancing current on-prem capability while migrating to a modern real-time AWS tech stack. Currently, I am:- Driving team recruiting; growing team 3x in 12 months while retaining top software engineering talent and spearheading integration DevOps team.- Setting strategy and leading development of automation and self-service capabilities to reduce operational burden and time platform engineers spend resolving issues and manually repetetive tasks.- Defining and executing technical and enterprise strategy for evolving Lending Club's data platform to support full lifecycle development of analytical & machine learning pipelines by transitioning from high latency on premises Hive to an AWS based low latency, loosely coupled Kafka/Spark/Cassandra stack for ingestion, ETL processing pipelines real-time decisioning and highly available persistence. - Leading development and delivery of self-service machine learning and analytical environments to enable data analysts, scientist and engineers throughout the company with always available best in class tooling.- Driving company wide platform evangelization and adoption for analytical and operational workloads.- Responsible for creating and representing the holistic data platform strategy; including long and short term engineering roadmap, staffing, vendor selection and annual budget process.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Chief software engineering manager on Amazon Marketplace Selling Coach platform which generates automated, machine generated recommendations based upon analytical and machine learned models to alert sellers to opportunities to grow and expand their business. Accomplishments included:Led a strategic product planning and development committee to establish both long term (3y) and short (1-12m) term product development plans in collaboration with Product Management team supporting a more than 50% annual profit growth.Established a culture of adoption of Lean Agile software development and continuous delivery practices to accelerate delivery while reducing software defects and disruptive events by 50%.Managed the product definition, architectural design, development, testing and deployment of key platforms for (1) distributed processing of real-time data at hundreds of thousands of transactions/second (2) a several thousand node distributed Hadoop and Spark cluster for orchestrating the processing of hundreds of Terabytes of data on a continuous basis (3) an always on Spark processing cluster that allows internal teams to perform ad hoc queries across datasets containing >100MM records in <10s (3) drove adoption of platform by intra and extra-departmental teams. Managed an annual infrastructure and hardware budget for fleets spread over 15 data centers on three continents.Three patent applications for technical innovations envisioned and developed as part of roadmap initiatives.Established operational metrics reporting and dashboards for all systems giving an at-a-glance view of platform health as well as automated alarming. Transitioned a single product development team from Seattle to Detroit and grew team from 6 local engineers to 17 top-talent engineers and 2 engineering managers.

Boston, Ma, Us

Key development leader for a group of applications that span a range of internal verticals including corporate lending compliance, event planning and EHS/safety management. Successes included:Coordinated technical solutions and managed development schedules and staffing requirements for four offshore development teams.Drove adoption of modern Agile/Scrum development processes and procedures, leading to a more than 25% increase in development deliverables and transitioned to an automated, continuous integration model for build, test and deploymentEstablished peer code review process for improving code quality and cross training team members.Performed comprehensive technical audits of three large scale applications to determine level of technical debt and effort required for improvement and modernization.Orchestrated planning between functional stakeholders, development teams, vendors and enterprise architects. Performed feature analysis and gap audit on global environmental health and safety (EHS) platform used company wide to ensure compliance with internal policies and external laws. Established vendor feature development roadmap and initiated internal initiative for data warehouse driven metrics collection and reporting.Established the process for instrumenting, measuring and reporting user experience metrics for over 20 department applications.

DNA Software is a fast paced biotech startup focused on nucleic acid assay design and analysis. During my tenure there I quickly became versed in the theory of science of nucleic acid design and managed the transition of products and business practices from a traditional application model to a cloud based Software as a Service (SaaS). Accomplishments included:Designed and led development of a horizontally scaled Java Enterprise based SaaS portal to allow customers to design and analyze their nucleic acid based assays. Managed all new products by centrally controlling internal resources to move the project through the entire SDLC. Acted as central resource for external customers to solicit and respond to their feedback and feature requests.Designed and led development of a massively parallel diagnostic design software suite for a global leader in parallelized genetic assay development. Software utilized dozens of concurrent cores to develop up to 500 non-interfering assays for each run. Reports from customer stated that through experimental evaluation, they determined that 99% of assays performed as designed the first time they were run.Coordinated complete rebranding effort with external design firm. Deliverables included complete customer facing website, logos, UI library for portal, and all collateral artwork.Managed online marketing effort using Google AdWords. Established campaigns and user targeting with Google Display Network and Remarketing. Developed a plan to continuously monitor site analytics to adjust content and navigation in order to effectively retain and convert users.

New York, New York, Us

Theatermania is a white label ticketing service for small venues. During my tenure, I architected and developed guidelines for the creation of a universal payment processing service for internal applications to leverage outside of a PCI compliant environment. Deliverables included a software requirements specification, a set of UML diagrams including class, domain and sequence diagrams and a set of stub projects defined by the UML models.

New York, Ny, Us

Lead architect on successful project to completely replace existing CMS enterprise web site for the hospital, medical school and practices. Key achievements included:Lead resource in effort to analyze existing code base that was causing multiple site outages per week.Chief architect and lead developer of a highly customized J2EE CMS solution using Vignette web CMS as a base.Technical representative in stakeholder interviews to define goals and milestones for new site. Integrated ideas from disparate portions of the institutions, including administration, senior management, patient care, education and students. Used findings to suggest a development path for new site as well as a universal site map and UI guide.Developed a vendor selection matrix to in extensive evaluation of commercial and open source portal/CMS solutions. Solicited RFIs, RFPs and RFQs from vendors as well as organizing representatives and internal management to evaluate potential solutions.Coordinated development efforts with graphic design team to ensure developed product was consistent with full page layouts and reusable site elements that were designed. Personally developed site templates from mockups delivered by design department utilizing latest web technologies including JSPs, XSL, CSS2&3 and jQuery.Worked with the owners of legacy data source on RDMS and mainframes to develop solutions to integrate their data into the website.Worked with server and network administration team to ensure that the highly available deployment platform was properly designed, installed, configured and tested.Technologies utilized in this position included: JSF, Oracle, JSP, JVM Tuning, JCR/Jackrabbit, Vignette CMS, XQuery/XPath, XSL, jQuery, CSS2/3, BigIP f5 Load Balancer, Red Hat, UML, Use Case/Requirements gathering, UI Wireframes, Weblogic, JMeter Load Testing

Coordinated the initial steps of moving an aging infrastructure to a more modern architecture. Achievements include:Hiring and directing a team of five mid-level developers on a variety on site solutions including a customized Lucene search engine, a customizable, reusable, generic survey form tool and a new set of site templates to reduce coupling with the backend.Coordinated vendor selection for <$500,000 architecture transition. Developed target architecture, compiled vendor selection matrix and solicited RFIs, RFPs and RFQs. Led product demonstrations for internal stakeholders as well as management.Migrated hundreds of embedded SQL queries and legacy EJBs to the new Hibernate/EJB3 model.Responsible for configuration and maintenance of 9 front end tomcat servers, 3 Glassfish app servers and 2 Weblogic app serversLed migration of thousand line JSP files to template based JSPs and JSFs.Worked with internal stakeholders to architect and develop new application and features on the website.Spearheaded effort to separate concerns into the appropriate tiers to give us a loosely coupled environment.Technologies utilized in this position included: Hibernate, JSF, Spring, Oracle RDBMS, JSP, JVM Performance Tuning, Red Hat Linux, ANT, Bash Scripting, Tomcat 5, BEA Weblogic, Glassfish Application Server, JMeter Load Testing

Developed solutions for dynamic CMS based websites using PHP and TYPO3 for a variety of clients.

During my stay at Evercare I worked primarily as a IT director for Evercare and other small business clients. I was also able to spend a significant amount of time working on Java programming projects using the latest enterprise technologies such as EJB3, JSF, and JMS.

Worked on a team of developers to create a logistics web application for the Defense Information Systems Agency. Primary focus was development and coupling of front end JSP pages to the underlying data layer.

Bachelors Degree, Electronic And Computer Engineering; Software Engineering And Digital Circuit Design

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