Ken Schultz Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Lead, manage and mentor multiple development teams tasked with feature development, Kubernetes development and support, data generation for development and testing, the architecture and support of common infrastructure including authentication/authorization and templated base application- Authored and administered standards for architecture of new components and services including security, monitoring,testing, performance and deployment requirements- Work closely with Product, Design, Data Engineering, Operations, Quality Assurance and other stakeholders to research, strategize and implement features and technical advances to the platform- Architected and led development of a long term project to collect more granular data from all 3rd party integrations with advertising platforms- Implemented an architectural review process, allowing more people to participate while keeping the process light- Performance/Scalability tasks including revamping page loads that requested too much data, optimizing database queries for large sets of data and splitting large tables (remove zero value data, reducing database by 50GB)- On-Call duties included response to recurring production issues and deployment

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

- Led and mentored a development team- Maintained daily operations of ReverbLessons.com (Rails) while taking on weekly ad hoc and new projects- Implemented an OAuth2 strategy for integration with Reverb.com- On-Call duties included response to recurring production issues and deployment- Collaborated in effort to statistically and efficiently increase new customer conversion- Added and updated monitoring including financial, performance, and usage metrics

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Direct and guide a development team- Upgraded a legacy codebase to modern dependencies while still developing new features- Created an on-call role to manage support for live systems- Designed and implemented a data warehousing solution to manage statistical analysis of business metrics and reports.- Transitioned new infrastructure to Docker containers hosted on Kubernetes in Google Cloud Platform

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Architected and implemented a new application utilizing Rails (API), React, Node and RDS(Postgres) going from 0 to 1000+ daily users in less than a month- Integrated a new application with the Google Drive API utilizing Google’s storage and documents as well as Google as a provider for OAuth2- Migrated a portion of applications from a monolith code base to service based architecture- Successfully transitioned a production system to a more resilient and reproducible environment with Docker and AWS EC2 Container Service- On-Call rotation duties including responding to production issues, deployment and debugging live applications

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Architected and implemented a NoSQL solution for storing and retrieving old orders (CouchBase) allowing removal from a primary database (MySQL)- Moved processor intensive tasks into AWS Elastic MapReduce (Hive)/Redshift for processing then importing the results into the primary database relieving load on production system.- Performance/Scalability tasks including removing usage of an unessential write intensive table and optimizing data heavy pages with server side filtering- On-Call rotation duties including responding to production issues and debugging live applications.- Implemented numerous Search Engine Optimization pages.- Assisted with the update of the build system from Ant/Ivy to Gradle and the integration with Jenkins.

- Architecture and development of a daemon to prepare hard drives for use upon hot swap and monitor the health for automated health management- Customized and tuned a Linux OS distribution to meet the needs of Cleversafe’s storage application.- Developed a net-snmp add-on to publish custom statistics and to allow for additional statistics to be added on the fly.- Ported custom packages from a RedHat distribution to Debian.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Linux Kernel development, including board bring-up, low level drivers (magnetometer, accelerometer, proximity, etc), video development and integration with Google Android- Collaborated with the Google Kernel Team to bring up and release a Google Experience phone- Architected low level communications (dsi, i2c, usb), security and bootloader code for P2K, Linux, Windows CE and Android based products- Engineered solutions for security or bootloader related issues- Developed robustness testing and evaluation of bootloader flashing interfaces- Coordinated software requirements and specifications with team members in a multi-national environment

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Maintained and upgraded an equipment database and prototype tracking system- Provided on-site support for networking, E-mail support, productivity applications, operating systems, disk and file restoration, virus removal, and software installation- Developed code for web interface clients as well as scripts to handle daily tasks