Engineering Project LeadData Center Systems

Office of the CTO• Researched and prototyped trending technologies to guide the architectural strategy of the organization - focused on Machine Learning platforms and reducing the complexities of Kubernetes on-premise deployments.• Participated in the technical due diligence process for internal teams helping to refine development processes and architectures.

Spearheaded the architectural validation effort for the next generation storage acceleration IC product. • Helped drive the adoption of an emulation platform that accelerated software development and product validation by months. Acted as liaison between various local and remote teams. Organized and facilitated cross-functional meetings to aid collaboration.• Technical lead for the MegaRAID firmware team. Developed the initial emulation firmware in C, troubleshot integration issues and mentored other developers.• Implemented a Python regression infrastructure used by the teams to validate changes before delivery.

• Release Train Engineer and gatekeeper for the firmware development team.• Automated firmware performance monitoring to ensure it met IOPs metrics.

Led an initiative to transform the firmware development process into an Agile model. The new, continuous integration process accelerated the team’s delivery cadence from 3-6 months to daily.• Built and led a new five-person team which implemented tools, tests, and a C#, .NET regression infrastructure to support the transformation.• Acted as the Release Train Engineer improving firmware stability, performance and the ability to effectively deliver small incremental pieces of functionality.

Managed two firmware development teams. Provided guidance and support to enable the Raid team to meet project deliverables a month ahead of schedule.

Implemented the SMI-S Storage Management interface for the product in C++.

Developed the security implementation of a remote monitoring service infrastructure in Java.

Designed and developed a distributed Java infrastructure to support e-commerce applications. Implemented portions of the User Interface and responsible for the product data model architecture.

Developed Java based system administrative tools for Solaris.