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Los Gatos, CA, US

JD International is a property management company that buys, repairs, and rents homes in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Santa Clara

Black Chasm is a software consulting enterprise that builds custom software solutions for people in Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area. Currently Black Chasm deploys and operates cloud hosting and virtual machines for many companies.

Moffett Field, CA

Guiding people on the future of technology.

San Francisco

The Internet Archive seeks, collects and maintains all the information available on the Internet. I coordinate the data collection for every website that feeds into the Wayback Machine, which is the Internet Archive's searchable tool that provides access to the history of the Internet. The system and infrastructure I designed collects information from more.

Los Gatos, CA

Peeq was a start-up founded in Los Gatos, California that provided real-time information about where people are having fun and interacting on social media. Peeq was a mobile application with a front-end built in Javascript, with a back-end built with Linux, Apache, Postgres, and PHP. Phonegap was then used to port this application to both iOS and Andraoid.

Mountain View

Handstand was a mobile application developer that partnered with HTC to develop textbook and information sharing applications for use with tablets and smartphones. Our primary product was an application called Nota Reader which allowed for customized content such as video, text, and interactive applications to be added to a main piece of content such as a.

Mountain View

Managed a small engineering team to run and maintain software for Netbase's knowledge search operations. To operate this system, we crawled billions of websites and information sources, built custom data storage and indexing software, and delivered actionable results to customers such as Johnson and Johnson, the US Army, and Kraft Foods. The tools my team.

Mountain View

Zembu was a start-up founded at the height of the dot.com boom in Silicon Valley. I joined the company to build a 45 person engineering and operations team to develop software very similar to the modern-day Amazon Cloud services. To build this service we used Postgres, Sun Microsystems hardware and software, and developed custom software that didn't exist.

Palo Alto, CA

Designed, built and operated their research lab IT infrastructure as a consultant in Palo Alto while also working at NASA.

Mountain View, CA

Worked at NASA Ames Research Center during the development and deployment of the modern Internet. Pioneered early network storage, communications protocols, open source software, RAID, TCP/IP and developed early routers and gateways. My team applied these solutions and projects to both airplane design and the space program, to modernize the computers.