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Orlando, Fl, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Reporting to VP of Engineering and leading across many of GitHub’s largest and most complex technical and non-technical business priorities. Providing pivotal architecture and design leadership, steering high level product strategy, building execution and resourcing plans, leading cross-organizational projects and delivering results. Role model for engineering excellence, consistently promoting a positive culture while mentoring and growing other engineers, managers, and partners. Also heavily involved with hiring processes and interviewing, building up our engineering and product leadership.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Interim VP of Engineering for the 300 engineer Code to Cloud organization which includes GitHub Actions and several other product areas.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Director of Engineering for the organization of 60+ engineers launching GitHub Actions. The #1 CICD provider on GitHub. My teams and I built the backbone of GitHub Actions including the hosted runners that power our world class matrix builds; core functionality like caching, auth, and artifact storage; platform and SDKs that power our micro-services; and advanced mitigations against security threats like crypto mining.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Principal Engineering Manager leading the Cloud Orchestration Platform team which owns core service components used in all Azure DevOps microservices hosted in the Azure cloud. Additionally owning customer notifications, service hooks, and security auditing micro-services and the full fidelity Team Foundation Server / Azure DevOps Server Database Migration microservice that allows enterprise customers to move their Team Foundation Server data into Azure DevOps (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/migrate/)Also a thought leader on org-wide testing processes and frameworks as well as software security and privacy practices. Growing the organization through interviewing, mentorship, and employer belonging programs.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Senior Engineer working on the Cloud Services Framework team which owns core service components & the SDK used to ship all Visual Studio Team Services microservices hosted in the Azure cloud.Personal contributions include: Leadership on org-wide Unit & Functional testing patterns & frameworks as well as software security and privacy practices. Design and implementation of: team project, project collection, and asynchronous operation REST services; platform service that identifies the specific customers that are impacted by live site incidents and can automatically notify them via the Azure management portal and Windows Azure Service Status page. Hiring and mentoring other engineers.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Manager of the Cloud Services Framework team owning the quality of core service components & the SDK used to ship Azure DevOps Services microservices hosted on the Azure cloud.Personal achievements include ownership of highly scalable, high availability, geo-located services for authentication (including OAuth, basic auth, Azure ACS), authorization, identity & group management, user events, and security. Contributions through code, architecture & design leadership, and review to large automation framework and tooling including automated azure deployment and lab management infrastructure. Planning, strategy, and coordination for multi-team features. Writing fast, robust, and comprehensive automated tests. Owner of org-wide engineering and testing practices for software security & customer privacy.Team contributions include: Compatibility testing framework; test in production framework; performance testing tools. Additionally, coverage of large features such as geo-located deployments; creating a shared service platform used by all Azure DevOps microservices; account signup functionality; getting started experience; client object model; sign-in/out flow in web & Visual Studio IDE; REST, MVC, and SOAP services.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Worked on Team Foundation Server shipping the 2012 edition of the product, subsequent quarterly updates, and transitioned the boxed product into the Azure DevOps service. Owned several core product areas including identity management, agile charts, OAuth, basic auth, customer data partitioning, and security testing. Contributed heavily to security process and tooling within the organization as well as the test automation framework and tooling.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Worked with Rare Ltd. on the massively successful Kinect Sports title for the Xbox 360 which has sold millions of units and won the BAFTA Family Game of the Year award. Acted as Tech Lead for the test team including creating the test technology plan; hiring and managing Engineers; building test framework & tooling; and owning testing for major areas of the game. My team delivered skeletal automation to drive Kinect programatically, automated build system, tooling to help with game localization, tooling to assist playtest sessions, etc.Additionally contributed org-wide technical leadership on several large test engineering projects and ran several org-wide working groups to grow our team members and processes.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Worked with Ensemble Studios on Halo Wars for the Xbox 360. Individually contributed automation to update/create new tests based on parsing build changes (subsequently used for other franchises like Forza, Lips, Fable, and Kinect titles); automated build system; automated balancing testing tool (cut balance testing from 6 peron-weeks to 3 days); bug filing system that pulls live debug data from the game to automatically generate bug content; Xbox 360 lab management software; highly distributed automated test case runner; matchmaking automation framework; as well as running a team of 8 QA personnel.Additionally contributed to Forza 2, Gears of War, Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Worked with Ensemble Studios on Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs. Provided testing for the unit and building upgrade system. Wrote tooling to parse game config files to generate build change reports and auto-generate new test cases. Additionally tested windows software installer for WarChiefs and Halo 2.

Bachelor Of Science Degree, Game Development Degree Program

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