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Houston, Texas, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Austin, Texas, US

Led the engineering for Fortellis -- an API and data-rights management platform for the automotive industry (access to connected-car data, service records/RO, appointment scheduling, real time inventory for all major car brands).

Redwood City, California, US

• Led 150 people distributed engineering team (platform, security, data, mobile and web), responsible for a portfolio of 23 security/privacy products with over 650M users. As a member of the executive team helped raise.
• Grew the team from 80 to over 150 engineers in a highly competitive job market
• Created the organizational architecture and the performance management processes
• Provided active mentoring, coaching and designed the career trajectories for ICs and managers
• Established a predictable daily release cadence with blue/green deployments and feature gates
• Transformed the service delivery platform from monolithic/on-prem to microservices, cloud-native (Docker, k8s, Envoy, Consul, Vault, Terraform), resulting in an 8% increase in service quality and a 13% reduction in.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Led the engineering team responsible for the white-labeled SaaS products for Telcos/ISPs (AT&T, Comcast, Vodafone). Led the technical due diligence on 5 acquisitions.
• Grew the team from 20 to 36 engineers across three locations
• Scaled the infrastructure to handle 20M unique monthly visitors with 99.95% SLA
• Migrated the content management platform from a monolithic LAMP stack to microservices with NodeJS and noSQL with zero downtime

Built product and technology organization of 45 people and devised the strategy for the world’s first no-code website design and application-building platform with biz apps marketplace. SiteKreator was acquired by Deluxe Corp.

Aliso Viejo, CA, US

Led the engineering team for AppLogic -- the first cloud management platform used by Infrastructure as Service (IaaS) vendors like BT and Layered Tech (now part of Rackspace) to offer AWS-like cloud service (compute, storage, network) to customers

Built a team of 20 engineers that created the first browser-based HIPAA-compliant oncology clinical management system used by UCLA Bowyer Oncology Center

Built a 65 member technology team and created the platform for content management, video streaming and content delivery (CDN) for clients in the entertainment industry.

Created one of the first VoIP apps working over dial-up connection, ranked top 5 communication software by Tucows (1998), and used by over 150K users worldwide

Created one of the first peer-to-peer LANs for sharing disks and printers across MS-DOS and Windows. Did a complete NetBIOS (w/ custom congestion control) and SMB protocol implementation

Designed and implemented the firmware and RTOS for one of the Bulgarian satellites, launched into space in 1992 (and still there)

Wrote the firmware (x86 assembly, C) for seven-axes industrial robot, assembling hard drives

Mathematics And Computer Science

Computer Science