• Established software development, release management, monitoring, and escalation procedures. • Redesigned and deployed new REST API back end system cutting monthly costs by 75% in 2 months. • Developed proprietary technology leveraging deep-learning to detect “contentious use” of licensed lyrics. • Automated song licensing and publishing processes that vastly reduced human error and reporting costs. • Developed a system to publish and track user generated music and leveraged HyperLedger to provide royalty reporting.• Architected cross platform AR mask solution on par with Snapchat lenses.• Technical architect of API platform supporting four different applications across Android, iOS, and web browsers.• Lead development of several iOS, Android and React web applications as well as Node.js and Java based back end services.Responsibilities:Developing working prototypes for clients on very short notice.Researching new technologies, implementing research papers, and advising leadership of relevant developments.Technology strategy and direction of new business ventures and partnerships.Designing and maintaining data analytics solutions for multiple teams.Scaling, mentoring, and retaining high performance engineering team.Managing multiple offshore development and QA teams.Technologies:Java, Python, Go, Swift, Objective-C, C++, JavaScript, Kotlin, Ruby, Metal, GLSL, OpenCV, AR Kit, Core ML, Guice, Dagger, AWS (Lambda, EC2, Kinesis, RDS, ECS), Kibana, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, MySQL, Cassandra, Postgres, React.js, Node.js, Tensorflow, Caffe, Spark, SparkML, Akka, Tableau, Superset, ffmpeg, MQTT, Swagger, Retrofit, gRPC, Jenkins, MFi Hardware Development

Consulted on technical decisions.Technologies:PIC, IoT, AWS (SQS, Kinesis, EC2), Embedded Systems, Micro-controllers, HIPPA

• Lead and managed the iOS, Android, front end, and back end teams.• Interfaced daily with the non-engineering teams to understand business requirements, establish clear specifications, and formulate software solutions.• Designed and managed the development and release of dozens of new systems.• Migrated platform to AWS and negotiated favored terms with all service providers cutting operational costs by 40%.• Designed and deployed a unified API for all platform clients.• Developed eCommerce integrations with Shopify.• Designed and developed an image processing and management service that currently handles ~300 1mb+ images per second.• Leveraged open-source machine learning technologies to provide contextual data to images allowing users to easily capture images and articles from arbitrary web sources.• Implemented NSFW deep learning image analysis engine that automated process that had required ten content moderators.• Responsible for technical strategy and direction of new businesses and partnerships.• Scaled engineering team from one to 15 engineers and mentored junior engineers.Technologies:Java, Objective-C, C++, Javascript, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, Titan, Kafka, Dust.js, Chef, AWS (EC2, OpsWorks, RDS, Elasticache), Akamai, New Relic, Caffe, Nvidia DIGITS, JavaFX, Shopify, Braintree, Magento

• Designed and managed the development of a multi-client software system installation at Vodafone Village that showcases Vodafone’s new products to visiting executives.• Ecosystem consisted of a digital media player running on 64 screens, a centralized content server, a distributed asset processing system, guide and visitor tablet• applications, and a 120” multi-touch table: all communicating via Stomp messages and HTTP requests.• Enabled client applications to interact and share identical assets seamlessly across Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, and iOS devices.• Developed daemons for both iOS and Android that allowed apps to be configured, launched and terminated on over 100 devices simultaneously via a web tool.• Engineered software solution to allow for the remote injection of multi-touch events into Android/iOS operating systems without jailbreaking/rooting, allowing for the creation of “giant” 60” Android/iOS devices.• Responsible for having $5 million in hardware and software configured, installed and functioning in Milan from Los Angeles.• Led all of the development teams and delivered the system 2 months early.• Developed a completely custom digital asset management and conversion system that enabled users to upload any PDF, Office document, image or video and view the asset on any device or platform.• Developed a cross-platform client application using Unity 3D to interface with the content system.Technologies:Java, C#, WPF, Unity 3D, Unreal Engine, Objective-C, C, C++, ActiveMQ, STOMP, Tika, Imagemagick

• Managed 5 engineers in the release of a full-featured tower defense game for Fox in less than 30 days.• Responsible for documenting licensed client and server source code without any licensor support and communicated system capabilities and limitations to 6 member design and art team.• Developed and deployed server-cluster and provided thorough review and performance metrics for solutions provided by Heroku and AWS.• Responsible for determining feature prioritization in order to reach MVP.• Automated art asset workflow from Maya to the game engine, reducing artist costs by 80%.• Integrated Amazon FPS into the in-game store allowing for the purchase of real world goods.• Responsible for developing custom behavioral analytics engine.• Created support for live A/B testing of game mechanics.Technologies:PHP, MySQL, Objective-C, Maya, OpenGL

• Responsible for server and client technology decisions and deployment including performance and analytics.• Developed and deployed a map tile rendering server that interfaced with a client API enabling artists to completely customize the look and feel of the world map.• Implemented optimizations on both the client and server side that resulted in dramatic performance improvements.• Managed a team of 5 developers and 4 designers in the release of two iOS applications, one of which reached #1 on Apple's App Store and supported 500k concurrent users.Technologies:Objective-C, PHP, Postgres, Cocos2D, OpenGL

• Assisted in portal branding process.

• Assisted in OpenGL shader development.

• Designed and developed an avatar creation and management system including the server and mobile client while managing a 4-member design team.• Deployed a server-side rendering engine that dramatically reduced client-side CPU load.• Integrated all existing social networking APIs and implemented live avatar commentary using RabbitMQ and Stomp.• Developed an augmented reality user discovery interface and geospatial search engine.• Integrated native iPhone video capabilities with the OpenCV framework enabling real-time facial recognition and tracking.• Designed and released a "New and Noteworthy" iPhone application in less than 24 hours.• Designed and developed iPhone applications for several entertainment industry clients including Paramount Pictures and Kevin Bacon.• Managed a 4-member team of designers and artists.