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Oakland, Ca, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Dallas, Tx, Us

* Responsible for AWS infrastructure in the WaterSmart group. Wrote Python to manage, monitor and orchestrate systems. Wrote Terraform and Chef code to provision infrastructure.* Created build pipelines and infrastructure for automation, unit testing, linting, security scanning and creation of release artifacts.* Migrated core services to an immutable infrastructure where changes are pushed out by building new AMIs and gracefully rotated into service. This change enabled faster auto-scaling, reduced production incidents and prevented configuration drift.* Created a centralized metrics server (statsd, graphite and grafana) for tracking key statistics and allowing better visibility across our systems and software.* Founding member of DevOps team, evangelized DevOps practices to the rest of the organization.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Menlo Park, California, Us

* As part of an engagement with Elotl, I was a member of the DevX team, responsible for building Robinhood's next-generation CI system based on AWS, Kubernetes, Buildkite and technology developed by Elotl Inc.* Assisted in building out EKS based CI infrastructure with Terraform* Developed custom Kubernetes components to autoscale build infrastructure, ensuring builds run quickly in a cost-effective and secure manner

First employee. Worked through several product iterations to build a nodeless container orchestration system for deploying containers to cloud VMs* Extensive experience building backend applications in Go to orchestrate cloud resources in AWS, Google Cloud and Azure* Extensive experience with Kubernetes internals and creating custom Kubernetes components and integrations* Consulted with companies to build software, provision infrastructure and apply best practices in their cloud environments

Scottsdale, Az, Us

Working with a smaller engineering team, I had the pleasure of wearing a few hats and working on a bit of everything. I architected and built the framework/system used to ingest and make sense of all the public remodeling data (permits, licenses, MLS, etc.) in the country. This involved ingesting and transforming heterogeneous permit data from 1000's of sources. When I left the framework was used daily by > 10 developers. I also wrote backend processing applications, puppetized the infrastructure, built an improved cache management system (tens of millions of pages), created deployment processes, provisioning scripts, etc. I also did a tiny bit of backend web development.(Python, Ruby, Postgres, Mysql, and a lot of other fun stuff)

Worked on a team developing Flocker (a data volume manager for Dockerized applications). Contributions included adding the Google Compute Engine block device driver and creating tools to provision or manage a Flocker cluster.Brief stint explanation: Left after two rounds of layoffs and massive change in business and product direction. The writing was on the wall; ClusterHQ ceased operations before the end of the year.(Python, Twisted, Ansible, AWS, GCE, Jenkins)

San Francisco, California, Us

While at Sauce I spent most of my time working on scaling our cloud infrastructure and writing a lot of async python to scale our services. This included creating new services, architecting for improved service interactions, adding new technology to the stack, improving logging and telemetry and doing a lot of work to make a large distributed system bigger, faster, more transparent and reliable.(Python, Twisted, Monocle, Redis, MySQL, Graphite/Statsd, Ansible, and lots of other interesting technologies and software)

San Francisco, California, Us

Toronto, On, Ca

Worked with researchers and other stakeholders to build quantitative equity models, backend data processing apps, monitoring systems, real-time analytics, front end utilities for users and ops.Worked on all aspects of managing a distributed system for calculating and presenting StarMine data including release planning, performance improvements, providing after hours support and emergency troubleshooting.(C++, Boost, PHP, bash, JavaScript, MySQL, Oracle)

Toronto, On, Ca

Created research implementations of quantitative financial models. Wrote tools to support the quantitative research team. Created a flexible system for historical testing of stock ranking algorithms (backtesting). Managed the research team's compute servers.(Linux, Python, NumPy/SciPy, R, C++, Boost, STL, MySQL)

Traveled around the US and through Eastern Europe.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Developed CAD and numerical simulation software (finite volume, finite element, multigrid) used to design air bearing sliders for hard disk drives. Responsible for turning numerical and research advances into software used across the hard disk drive industry. Wrote way too much Fortran. Managed a multiplatform lab of 15+ workstations and servers. Collaborated with industry researchers and organized the annual CML Sponsors' Meeting.(C++, Fortran, Python, Perl, Linux)

Evanston, Il, Us

Developed flash and perl applications for students and professors. Set up and managed workstations and servers for a student computer lab. Performed shoddy camera work on video shoots.

Evanston, Il, Us

Master Of Science (Ms), Mechanical Engineering (Controls)

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering