Streamlined the phone number management process by leading a 2-year, multi-team microservice migration project, resulting in significant improvements in time-to-market.Significant contributor in developing a consolidated verification product. Provided insights on API design, customer experience, security, and well-designed system architecture.Played a pivotal role in creating the SDK team by interviewing and hiring five high-performing engineers.Led a strategic project to redesign our internal authentication service. This service is a crucial component of Telesign's multi-year roadmap.Facilitated and mediated discussions among geographically distributed teams, fostering collaboration and effective communication to achieve project objectives.Introduced and championed test-driven development practices across engineering teams, improving software quality and reliability.Mentored colleagues, such as principal engineers, project managers, and engineering managers to improve their leadership skills and foster a high-performing team culture.Served as the subject matter expert on gRPC, and introduced best practices that streamlined gRPC adoption for engineers. This resulted in wide adoption of gRPC in Telesign as the preferred internal service protocol.

Led cross team initiatives in migrating from a monolithic application to microservices. Led team in implementing Google My Business and Yelp profile integration. Led team in adopting a new user website builder, similar to Squarespace and Wix. Member of technical council and led engineering in adopting TDD best practices and performance optimizations.

Oversee email outreach and lead conversion program. Led the team in expanding the email leads program to Germany.

Responsible for defining culture, best practices, and leadership structure of engineering teams. Ensure each team works closely with product owners to define the best solution for everyone. Responsible for many revenue critical ad serving systems. Recipient of the Rubicon Cultural Value award from my extremely supportive coworkers. Oversight of the following systems- Bid Engine: Real time bidding platform* Identified resolved several major performance bottlenecks within the platform * Continue to scale this system as the company grows. - Beacon: Viewability tracking* Scaled to track rendering in 6 globally distributed data centers- Event Notification* Near real-time notification delivery for discrepancy resolution and bid loss notification- Auction Telemetry* Real-time RTB transactions troubleshooting tool* Mix of Spark, Storm, and Kafka- Machine Learning* Use of Vowpal Wabbit to learn bidding behaviors in real time

Design a massively concurrent service infrastructure.

Provide appropriate technical strategy to suit long term business goals, technology architecture, managing IT infrastructure, as well as leading developers onshore and offshore.2011 - 2012 Tech Lead for Mazda Canada (www.mazda.ca)* Architect Membase caching solution.* Implement automated and regression testing process.* Led team to build high visibility features on Mazda Canada site.2005 - 2011 Tech Lead for Automotive Lead Management system that processed over 9 million leads, reported on various metrics, and improved dealer performance.* Provided service for 4 major OEMs.* Created a real time, interactive dashboard.* Created over 64 individually tailored reports for clients.* Integrated with 110 lead providers and 60 CRMs.* Improved sales and performance for OEMs from 2005-2010.* Negotiated with hosting provider to reduce hardware cost by 50%.* Manage a team of offshore developers and QA resources.* Implemented Continuous Integration driven by automated build, bug analysis, and software releases.* Implemented advanced database optimizations in PostgreSQL and Oracle XmlDB.* Implement touch-optimized mobile site using jQuery and HTML 5.

Worked on a team to implement a digital document capture and storage system.

Worked on a team to build a high volume lead delivery system that is still one of the top revenue source for Edmunds. Reported directly to the Director of Lead Delivery.Designed and build both the front end and backend system to accept lead prospects and delivered them to dealers that best fit their needs.